{"id":1775,"date":"2006-03-20T17:40:48","date_gmt":"2006-03-20T21:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blg\/2006\/03\/20\/stop-everything-now\/"},"modified":"2023-09-07T04:57:28","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T09:57:28","slug":"stop-everything-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/20\/stop-everything-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop everything now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>I stood up in my first grade class and said, &#8220;Do these chairs have to be in row? Can we put them in a circle, or sit on the floor?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The answer was no, and i began to hide my creative thinking.<\/p>\n<p>I also began to invent illnesses so i could stay home from school and read, write and create.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>How many of you recognize yourself into this? Add your email, website or blog adress in the comment field. We should be friends.<\/p>\n<p>Taken from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/1587612348\/wheniridemybi-20\">Sark&#8217;s Creative Companion<\/a> updated edition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stood up in my first grade class and said, &#8220;Do these chairs have to be in row? Can we put them in a circle, or sit on the floor?&#8221; The answer was no, and i began to hide my creative thinking. I also began to invent illnesses so i could stay home from school&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/20\/stop-everything-now\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stop everything now<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9111,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775\/revisions\/9111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcturgeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}