{"id":165,"date":"2009-11-17T09:26:05","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T15:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seanthorenson.wordpress.com\/?p=165"},"modified":"2014-10-10T20:52:44","modified_gmt":"2014-10-11T01:52:44","slug":"evolution-of-the-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/evolution-of-the-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"Evolution of the Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-164\" title=\"idea\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/idea.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"352\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><strong>I never realized how ubiquitous the symbolism for an &#8220;idea moment&#8221; was until I considered its use in a historical context.<\/strong> The pre-twentieth century &#8220;ideas&#8221; don&#8217;t quite depict that flash moment of brilliance that we associate with turning on a light. Using the traditional incandescent bulb in today&#8217;s green-conscious world seems too anachronistic. Will adopting a revised symbol of the light bulb be necessary as advances in technology render the original unrecognizable? Add this to your list of things to lose sleep over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I never realized how ubiquitous the symbolism for an &#8220;idea moment&#8221; was until I considered its use in a historical context. The pre-twentieth century &#8220;ideas&#8221; don&#8217;t quite depict that flash moment of brilliance that we associate with turning on a light. Using the traditional incandescent bulb in today&#8217;s green-conscious world seems too anachronistic. Will adopting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[63,76,18,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-ideas","category-illustration","category-inspiration"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3XRuE-2F","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7621,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions\/7621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorenson.com\/inklings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}