{"id":173458,"date":"2015-01-06T18:54:22","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T18:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/01\/06\/i-think-the-biggest-obstacle-for-people-with-their\/"},"modified":"2015-01-06T18:54:22","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T18:54:22","slug":"i-think-the-biggest-obstacle-for-people-with-their","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/01\/06\/i-think-the-biggest-obstacle-for-people-with-their\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I think the biggest obstacle for people with their creativity is that they feel they have to sit down and create this finished, polished product. Especially nowadays, it\u2019s so easy to have a library of two thousand CDs, books and records. So many things. We\u2019re used to having all of these finished works of art in our life that seem to arise out of nothing. I think that so much of the creative process is a fragmentary one, and then it\u2019s about just allowing your intuition to put it together for you. It\u2019s funny how you create something and you think you\u2019re going in a million different directions, and then the thing you end up with is the thing that you wanted to create your whole life, but you\u2019re just as surprised by it as anybody else.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>Jeff Mangum (<a href=\"http:\/\/pitchfork.com\/features\/interviews\/5847-neutral-milk-hotel\/\" target=\"_blank\">x<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think the biggest obstacle for people with their creativity is that they feel they have to sit down and create this finished, polished product. Especially nowadays, it\u2019s so easy to have a library of two thousand CDs, books and records. So many things. We\u2019re used to having all of these finished works of art &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/01\/06\/i-think-the-biggest-obstacle-for-people-with-their\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[363,560,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173458"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}