{"id":218,"date":"2006-10-31T14:19:14","date_gmt":"2006-10-31T22:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rustinjessen.com\/2006\/10\/31\/a-word-on-inspiration\/"},"modified":"2006-10-31T14:19:14","modified_gmt":"2006-10-31T22:19:14","slug":"a-word-on-inspiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/a-word-on-inspiration\/","title":{"rendered":"A word on inspiration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is just about the best damned blog post I&#8217;ve read in the last year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.37signals.com\/svn\/posts\/72-inspiration-is-magical\">From Signal Vs. Noise Blog:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Inspiration is like picking up one of those blinky things in a video game that makes you invincible for awhile. You can do anything, go anywhere, and you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have to worry about it.<\/p>\n<p>Those blinky things exist in real life too. It may be a picture, or some words, or a sound, or a idea, or a mistake, or a moment. Whatever it is, pick it up and run with it. Run with it like you stole it.<\/p>\n<p>You can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t bottle up inspiration. You can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t put it in a ziplock, toss it in the freezer, and fish it out later. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s instantly perishable if you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t eat it while it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fresh.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday I was inspired by a few things. I swore off the weekend and dove into it. And I got about 2 weeks of work done in 24 hours. Inspiration is a time machine.<\/p>\n<p>Inspiration is a magical thing, a productivity multiplier, a motivator. But it won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t wait for you. Inspiration is a now thing. If it grabs you, grab it right back and put it to work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is just about the best damned blog post I&#8217;ve read in the last year. From Signal Vs. Noise Blog: Inspiration is like picking up one of those blinky things in a video game that makes you invincible for awhile. You can do anything, go anywhere, and you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have to worry about it. Those &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/a-word-on-inspiration\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A word on inspiration<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rustinjessen.com\/old\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}