{"id":4,"date":"2014-05-19T23:54:24","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T23:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjdarby.net\/ideas\/?page_id=4"},"modified":"2014-05-20T20:56:56","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T20:56:56","slug":"whats-the-big-idea","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/mjdarby.net\/ideas\/whats-the-big-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the Big Idea?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-5\" src=\"http:\/\/mjdarby.net\/ideas\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/MattPortrait.jpg\" alt=\"A lovely picture of me\" width=\"222\" height=\"334\" \/>Hey, how&#8217;s it going?\u00a0Welcome to Darbenghast Ideas! This blog is a sub-blog thing of <a title=\"Darbenghast\" href=\"http:\/\/www.darbenghast.com\" onclick=\"javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http:\/\/www.darbenghast.com']);\">Darbenghast<\/a>,\u00a0 and it is home to all the wonderfully terrible ideas I&#8217;m trying to generate as part of my initiative to become a more imaginative person. Why become more imaginative? Well, you know.. I&#8217;m sick of being the boring one who just nods along with everything.<\/p>\n<p>So, how am I doing this? The <i>big idea<\/i> is pretty simple: Whenever I can, I want to think up ten ideas centred around a theme that I&#8217;ve chosen for the day. The theme can be anything: Story hooks, video game mechanics, crisp flavours.. Even ideas for what sorts of lists of ideas may be interesting to think about in the future! (As a side-note, I call the list of idea lists an &#8216;idealist&#8217;, because I&#8217;m a nerd). This is surprisingly difficult: I have no experience in being original, clever or otherwise creative.<\/p>\n<p>The inspiration for this mini-project came from James Altucher&#8217;s <a title=\"The Ultimate Guide for Becoming an Idea Machine\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesaltucher.com\/2014\/05\/the-ultimate-guide-for-becoming-an-idea-machine\/\" onclick=\"javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackEvent','outbound-article','http:\/\/www.jamesaltucher.com']);\">blog post on becoming an\u00a0<em>idea machine<\/em><\/a>. Like pretty much everything else, I&#8217;m taking a relaxed\u00a0approach to this. I&#8217;m not going to explode if I don&#8217;t get ten ideas out: Just one or two on a bad day would be great. Even zero is fine if I do something else that uses the creative juices. Posting every day is one of those things that is the ideal, but let&#8217;s see how reality turns out. I&#8217;m currently thinking maybe three to four posts a week, but even that might turn out to be too big a commitment.<\/p>\n<p>The actual format of each post is simple: There will be the theme, the list, and a brief expansion of an\u00a0idea I consider worthy of giving further thought. So go on, check out the (almost empty) archive, and let me know what you think!<\/p>\n<p>Matt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, how&#8217;s it going?\u00a0Welcome to Darbenghast Ideas! This blog is a sub-blog thing of Darbenghast,\u00a0 and it is home to all the wonderfully terrible ideas I&#8217;m trying to generate as part of my initiative to become a more imaginative person. Why become more imaginative? Well, you know.. I&#8217;m sick of being the boring one who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","content-columns-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mjdarby.net\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mjdarby.net\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mjdarby.net\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mjdarby.net\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mjdarby.net\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/mjdarby.net\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26,"href":"http:\/\/mjdarby.net\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mjdarby.net\/ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}