{"id":858,"date":"2005-04-25T12:35:05","date_gmt":"2005-04-25T20:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/04\/25\/creativity\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:23:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:23:29","slug":"creativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2005\/04\/25\/creativity\/","title":{"rendered":"Creativity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t been writing much lately.  Haven&#8217;t spent much time reading blogs or online news, either.  <\/p>\n<p>Rather, I&#8217;ve been cooking more, reading books, and getting crafty.  Last weekend I made this:<\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\">\n<a href=\"<a href=\"http:\/\/photos7.flickr.com\/10902878_0a4af1986b_m.jpg\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos7.flickr.com\/10902878_0a4af1986b_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"239\" alt=\"pansy\" \"><br \/>\n<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s small, only 5&#8243;x5&#8243;, and it came as a kit with the mat, glass, and stand.  I enjoyed it and have another slightly more complex one to start next.<\/p>\n<p>While I stitched this, I watched three <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/nova\/\">Nova<\/a> episodes that explained <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/nova\/elegant\/\">string theory<\/a>.  Now <em>that<\/em> requires some creative thinking!  It&#8217;s complex, even mind-boggling, yet incredibly fascinating.<\/p>\n<p>On a lighter note, I re-read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0394820371\/102-1676894-3032948?v=glance\">The Phantom Tollbooth<\/a>, a children&#8217;s classic.  I&#8217;d given each of my students a copy as a reward for good performance.  Juster&#8217;s play with words throughout the allegory tickles me.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Monday, all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t been writing much lately. Haven&#8217;t spent much time reading blogs or online news, either. Rather, I&#8217;ve been cooking more, reading books, and getting crafty. Last weekend I made this:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,16,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-humanities","category-nature","category-technology"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858","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=858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12614,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions\/12614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}