{"id":3483,"date":"2014-10-07T07:34:14","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T13:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=3483"},"modified":"2014-10-07T07:35:48","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T13:35:48","slug":"bright-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/?p=3483","title":{"rendered":"Bright Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ramblindan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Edison_New2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3482\" src=\"http:\/\/ramblindan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Edison_New2-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"Edison\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Edison_New2-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Edison_New2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Edison_New2.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>There is no fool like an old fool. I am that old fool, but what I just did is not so much foolish as it was ignorance. Ignorant is what one is before learning something unknown. So ignorant is not bad unless you never learn your way out of it. Ha!<\/p>\n<p>I have been exploring a lot of new ideas and techniques I have never investigated. So that exploration is what I call a learning experience. I love learning experiences even when they highly frustrate me.<\/p>\n<p>Controlled frustration is OK in my book. A few \u201cgrey\u201d words may utter from my mouth but I soon recover. I say to myself, \u201cWell, I won\u2019t need to try that again, at least in THAT way.\u201d Kind of like the Thomas Edison method. He wasn\u2019t particularly smart or gifted, he was persistent. He learned by trial and error experiments. Like the famous light bulb filament story, he \u201cdiscovered\u201d \u00a0thousands of types of material that were not suitable for a filament.<\/p>\n<p>I just make every failure a learning experience. When the light bulb burns above my head, I know I have it right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no fool like an old fool. I am that old fool, but what I just did is not so much foolish as it was ignorance. Ignorant is what one is before learning something unknown. So ignorant is not bad unless you never learn your way out of it. Ha! I have been exploring a lot of new ideas and techniques I have never investigated. So that exploration is what I call a learning&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[92,160],"class_list":["post-3483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-observation","tag-culture","tag-thought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}