{"id":15080,"date":"2014-08-08T22:35:56","date_gmt":"2014-08-09T03:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=15080"},"modified":"2014-08-08T22:35:56","modified_gmt":"2014-08-09T03:35:56","slug":"synthesis-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=15080","title":{"rendered":"Synthesis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For our intensive little workshop, Wednesday was brainstorming, yesterday consisted of mutual demos (followed by several hours of trying to digest and understand each others&#8217; demos), and today was all about synthesis.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow we will present, in a symposium, the results of our three day effort.  Until this morning it wasn&#8217;t at all clear what we would end up with.  There was so much to work through, so many intersecting concepts to absorb.<\/p>\n<p>But over the course of the day today it all began to take shape.  Knowing that we will need to go in front of a largish group of people tomorrow and present our collective ideas was a very effective motivator.<\/p>\n<p>As Samuel Johnson once said of his soon-to-be-executed acquaintance William Dodd: &#8220;Depend upon it Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For our intensive little workshop, Wednesday was brainstorming, yesterday consisted of mutual demos (followed by several hours of trying to digest and understand each others&#8217; demos), and today was all about synthesis. Tomorrow we will present, in a symposium, the results of our three day effort. Until this morning it wasn&#8217;t at all clear what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=15080\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Synthesis&#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":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15080"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15081,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15080\/revisions\/15081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}