{"id":1322,"date":"2012-06-12T22:39:36","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T02:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/?p=1322"},"modified":"2012-06-13T08:59:38","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T12:59:38","slug":"creativity-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/2012\/06\/12\/creativity-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Creativity is&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/20120612-224258.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/20120612-224258.jpg?w=1080\" alt=\"20120612-224258.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Creativity is a marvelous thing to ponder. It&#8217;s just a wee bit harder to actually do and so I like to spend time dreaming about being creative. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>To create anything \u2014 whether a short story or a magazine profile or a film or a sitcom \u2014 is to believe, if only momentarily, you are capable of magic. These essays are about that magic \u2014 which is sometimes perilous, sometimes infectious, sometimes fragile, sometimes failed, sometimes infuriating, sometimes triumphant, and sometimes tragic. I went up there. I wrote. I tried to see.<\/em> &mdash; from <a href=\"\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1936365766\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=livinastilif-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=1936365766\"\" target=\"_blank\">Magic Hours: Essays on Creators and Creation<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creativity is a marvelous thing to ponder. It&#8217;s just a wee bit harder to actually do and so I like to spend time dreaming about being creative. To create anything \u2014 whether a short story or a magazine profile or a film or a sitcom \u2014 is to believe, if only momentarily, you are capable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2v9Qt-lk","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1322"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1330,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1322\/revisions\/1330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}