{"id":747,"date":"2004-08-05T16:06:09","date_gmt":"2004-08-05T21:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/creator\/2004\/08\/05\/747\/"},"modified":"2004-08-05T16:06:09","modified_gmt":"2004-08-05T21:06:09","slug":"747","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2004\/08\/05\/747\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Found via a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.constrained.org\/challenges\/21\/\" title=\"&quot;In missives, cons conserve scarce resources. Mimic em. Rein in.&quot;\">new challenge<\/a> (and a difficult one) at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.constrained.org\/\" title=\"I think I'm going to make up a motto for Constrained, like I did for NewsBruiser.  How about &quot;Constrained: Better than a screwdriver in the kidneys?&quot;\">constrained.org<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idlegreen.co.uk\/introe.htm\" title=\"&quot;The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees oneself of the chains that shackle the spirit... the arbitrariness of the constraint only serves to obtain precision of execution.&quot; --Igor Stravinsky\">Endless Limitations introduction<\/a> makes some excellent points on restrictions and creativity.  It makes a better argument for artificial constraints than I&#8217;ve ever been able to do, actually, and the way the site&#8217;s author (and the book referenced as an inspiration) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idlegreen.co.uk\/thinking.htm\" title=\"&quot;Creative thinking happens, then, when the subject is not thinking about being creative.&quot;\">applies it to education<\/a> is equally interesting.  It&#8217;s a whole new look, for example, on why I never get things accomplished without the extreme focus of a deadline, and yet why I don&#8217;t learn well when I cram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Found via a new challenge (and a difficult one) at constrained.org, the Endless Limitations introduction makes some excellent points on restrictions and creativity. It makes a better argument for artificial constraints than I&#8217;ve ever been able to do, actually, and the way the site&#8217;s author (and the book referenced as an inspiration) applies it to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,16,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-constrained-writing","category-discoveries","category-plugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}