{"id":10,"date":"2020-06-04T20:11:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T03:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dlakewriter.com\/home\/?p=10"},"modified":"2020-06-11T17:14:13","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T00:14:13","slug":"ideas-where-i-get-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dlakewriter.com\/home\/ideas-where-i-get-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Ideas &#8211; Where I get them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m often asked, \u201cWhere do you get your ideas?\u201d &nbsp;Well, I did get the nickname \u2018Old Weird Don\u2019 at a very early age. &nbsp;Seriously, for me story ideas and scene ideas come from forcing myself to look at experiences, people, and events from different points of view. &nbsp;I learned the value of this while working in the R&amp;D laboratories in Silicon Valley. &nbsp;There we always tried to have a team of engineers with different ethnic backgrounds, and therefore different problem solving techniques. &nbsp;One approach may not have solved the problem of the time, but the approach always seemed to trigger advancement from somebody else. &nbsp;So I spin an experience, for example, around and around until I find what is, to me, an interesting way to present it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m often asked, \u201cWhere do you get your ideas?\u201d &nbsp;Well, I did get the nickname \u2018Old Weird Don\u2019 at a very early age. &nbsp;Seriously, for me story ideas and scene ideas come from forcing myself to look at experiences, people, and events from different points of view. &nbsp;I learned the value of this while working [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-process"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dlakewriter.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dlakewriter.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dlakewriter.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dlakewriter.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dlakewriter.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dlakewriter.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":451,"href":"https:\/\/dlakewriter.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dlakewriter.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dlakewriter.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dlakewriter.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}