{"id":2459,"date":"2019-06-16T17:50:50","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T00:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=2459"},"modified":"2019-06-17T05:02:19","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T12:02:19","slug":"creativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=2459","title":{"rendered":"Creativity"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2458\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2458\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/thumbnail_IMG_0903.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2458\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/thumbnail_IMG_0903-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/thumbnail_IMG_0903-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/thumbnail_IMG_0903-768x1025.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/thumbnail_IMG_0903-767x1024.jpg 767w, https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/thumbnail_IMG_0903-830x1108.jpg 830w, https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/thumbnail_IMG_0903-230x307.jpg 230w, https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/thumbnail_IMG_0903-350x467.jpg 350w, https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/thumbnail_IMG_0903-480x641.jpg 480w, https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/thumbnail_IMG_0903.jpg 959w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2458\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sitting on the new bench<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cCreativity, like play, can turn an old person into a young person,\u201d wrote Dr. George Vaillant. In his book <em>Aging Well,<\/em>\u00a0this practicing psychiatrist and professor at Harvard Medical School went on to define creativity as \u201cputting something into the world that was not there before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I like that.<\/p>\n<p>Makes me think of gardeners or writers or home builders or artists or composers, or . . . or you or me.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds like a plan for the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCreativity, like play, can turn an old person into a young person,\u201d wrote Dr. George Vaillant. In his book Aging Well,\u00a0this practicing psychiatrist and professor at Harvard Medical School went on to define creativity as \u201cputting something into the world that was not there before.\u201d I like that. Makes me think of gardeners or writers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2459"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2463,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459\/revisions\/2463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}