{"id":4817,"date":"2014-10-04T08:00:37","date_gmt":"2014-10-04T13:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=4817"},"modified":"2014-09-19T12:30:10","modified_gmt":"2014-09-19T17:30:10","slug":"grasping-at-straws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=4817","title":{"rendered":"Grasping at straws"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m not going to lie, I feel like the Fourteen Stupid Ryan “Facts” post that I ran a couple weeks ago is probably the best and most creative thing that I’ve written in years<\/em>. And it’s barely even a complete idea.<\/p>\n

It’s a clever (funny?) thing on its own; that it was preceded by a list of actual facts really made it shine.\u00a0And now I have this sinking feeling that I’ll never be able to write anything anywhere near as inspired. I don’t even know where the inspiration for it came from. For once in my life, ideas just rolled out of my head, as opposed to how I usually just take something I like that someone else did and twist it into something I can claim as my own.<\/p>\n

Even if they weren’t actually a\u00a0“smart” or “good” or “funny” pair of posts, the fact remains that it was far more fun to write them than anything else that I’ve written in quite some time.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I guess the point is that now I’m depressed that I’m an idiot who can only have an original idea by accident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m not going to lie, I feel like the Fourteen Stupid Ryan “Facts” post that I ran a couple weeks ago is probably the best and most creative thing that I’ve written in years. And it’s barely even a complete idea. It’s a clever (funny?) thing on its own; that it was preceded by a … Continue reading Grasping at straws<\/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":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-b"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4817"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4846,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4817\/revisions\/4846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}