{"id":2631,"date":"2013-02-17T14:00:52","date_gmt":"2013-02-17T21:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/?p=2631"},"modified":"2013-02-16T10:31:44","modified_gmt":"2013-02-16T17:31:44","slug":"thinking-not-required","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/thinking-not-required\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking Not Required"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Watch a child creating. They do not stop and ponder. They do not re-do it. They rarely stop once the material is in their hand. Its not that we don’t need to stop and look at our work with a critical eye or that sometimes we do need to do something over in order to perfect our process. But, I think when we start out creating artwork, we need to be children. We need not to think; \u00a0we need to just create. \u00a0The thinking can come later when it will do the most good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Watch a child creating. They do not stop and ponder. They do not re-do it. They rarely stop once the material is in their hand. Its not that we don’t need to stop and look at our work with a critical eye or that sometimes we do need to do something over in order…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ponderings"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2O0Lm-Gr","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}