{"id":17063,"date":"2016-02-18T22:35:24","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T03:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=17063"},"modified":"2016-02-18T22:35:24","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T03:35:24","slug":"together-we-will-have-many-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=17063","title":{"rendered":"Together we will have many children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After an intense and wonderful day &#8220;prototyping the future&#8221; with my collaborators, I am left with an interesting question:  Am I collaborating with these people because I want to develop new ideas for the future, or do I want to develop new ideas for the future because it lets me collaborate with these people?<\/p>\n<p>Of course these two questions cannot be totally disentangled from each other.  We are inspired by our collaborators, and that inspiration leads to new discoveries.  In a sense we are parents, bringing forth our children into the world.  Except that those children are wondrous new ideas.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately I do not need to answer this question.  I am in a beautiful professional relationship with brilliant and exciting people, and together we will have many children.  What more could one ever ask for?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After an intense and wonderful day &#8220;prototyping the future&#8221; with my collaborators, I am left with an interesting question: Am I collaborating with these people because I want to develop new ideas for the future, or do I want to develop new ideas for the future because it lets me collaborate with these people? Of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=17063\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Together we will have many children&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17063"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17064,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17063\/revisions\/17064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}