{"id":1896,"date":"2007-03-23T20:52:13","date_gmt":"2007-03-24T03:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2007\/03\/23\/1896\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:40:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:40:53","slug":"1896","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2007\/03\/23\/1896\/","title":{"rendered":"An Invitation to Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly over a year ago I mentioned that I was going to explore <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2006\/01\/14\/the-artists-way-if-the-shoe-doesnt-fit\/\">a book on creativity written by Eric Maisel<\/a>. I didn&#8217;t follow it daily, but I found the ideas and exercises interesting. <\/p>\n<p>Well, just a few days ago I was contacted by his publicist asking me if I&#8217;d be interested in participating in a &#8220;blog tour&#8221; for his upcoming book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tenzenseconds.com\/\">Ten Zen Seconds<\/a>. It&#8217;s a type of marketing that seems collaborative and mutually beneficial. I thought it would be rather fun. I&#8217;ll get to know other bloggers who focus on similar interests, become acquainted with the author, and get a free book out of the deal! <\/p>\n<p>In a couple of months, I will interview Eric about his book as it relates to a topic of interest to me. As I develop this I&#8217;ll keep you posted. And once the Ten Zen Seconds blog tour page is updated, I&#8217;ll post a link to that instead. It will be a trove of resources on creativity.<\/p>\n<p>For general information on Eric Maisel, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ericmaisel.com\/\">you might visit his website<\/a>, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly over a year ago I mentioned that I was going to explore a book on creativity written by Eric Maisel. I didn&#8217;t follow it daily, but I found the ideas and exercises interesting. Well, just a few days ago I was contacted by his publicist asking me if I&#8217;d be interested in participating in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,25,28,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-education","category-humanities","category-regional"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11491,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896\/revisions\/11491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}