{"id":7624,"date":"2023-06-21T04:51:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T04:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=7624"},"modified":"2023-06-24T04:52:08","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T04:52:08","slug":"the-thing-imagined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=7624","title":{"rendered":"the thing imagined"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There is an improvisational technique I keep trying to hone. I realize it slowly over years and years. I am not proficient but I have made inroads. It is a direct confrontation with my expectations and if I could use words, it is an abandoning of certain kinds of ambitions-in-the-moment. The thing is, the practice of giving it up often increases the likelihood of obtaining the thing originally imagined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is an improvisational technique I keep trying to hone. I realize it slowly over years and years. I am not proficient but I have made inroads. It is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/?p=7624\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"Layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-rockbob","post-7624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bobwiseman.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}