{"id":910,"date":"2009-07-11T10:32:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-11T10:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=910"},"modified":"2010-05-22T00:35:43","modified_gmt":"2010-05-21T23:35:43","slug":"upside-of-mediocrity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2009\/07\/upside-of-mediocrity.html","title":{"rendered":"Upside of Mediocrity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cookylamoo\/3709648223\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/blogpix\/Image_WIP_01Ba.jpg\" title=\"Work in Progress, stage 2\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For those of you who asked if I was alright after <a href=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2009\/07\/composing-with-radio-on.html\">Wednesday&#8217;s post<\/a>: much better now, thanks. To summarise: the idea for a piece I was working on proved to be impossible.  From working on that first idea a second, different but related idea for a piece came to mind.  Work on this second idea progressed and expanded until it became thoroughly confused and unworkable.<\/p>\n<p>In the last few days I&#8217;ve figured out an alternative way of going about realising the first idea, and have nearly finished it.  Then I have the second idea to go back to.  I&#8217;m trying to remember who said that every good idea is really three ideas &#8211; I usually think of it as the other way round, where I need at least three ideas put together to make one good idea.  The last few days seem to have demonstrated a perverse corollary, that any half-assed idea can be broken down into multiple half-assed ideas.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, England are 2 wickets down and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/sport\/2009\/jul\/11\/ashes-england-australia1\">219 runs behind Australia<\/a> going into the last day at Cardiff, so I&#8217;d be feeling pretty good in any case.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cookylamoo\/3709648227\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/blogpix\/Image_WIP_01Ca.jpg\" title=\"Work in Progress, stage 3\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those of you who asked if I was alright after Wednesday&#8217;s post: much better now, thanks. To summarise: the idea for a piece I was working on proved to be impossible. From working on that first idea a second, different but related idea for a piece came to mind. Work on this second idea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=910"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4344,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions\/4344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}