{"id":969,"date":"2006-01-17T08:43:19","date_gmt":"2006-01-17T15:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kattywilly.com\/blog\/?p=969"},"modified":"2006-01-17T08:43:19","modified_gmt":"2006-01-17T15:43:19","slug":"for-years-ive-tried-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/?p=969","title":{"rendered":"For years I&#8217;ve tried to&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For years I&#8217;ve tried to use outliners.  For some reason I can&#8217;t get my<br \/>\nideas to fit into that kind of structure.  I was just thinking that my<br \/>\nthoughts and processing of them aren&#8217;t hierarchical, but instead more<br \/>\nlike procedural programming.<\/p>\n<p>When I think about things they aren&#8217;t structured like outlines they are<br \/>\nlike rivers of thought flowing from one idea to the next.  When I get<br \/>\nideas that I want to write about it is usually sparked by reading<br \/>\nsomething and having the ideas spring forth and connect to other ideas.<br \/>\n  My most difficult task is being able to describe the sometimes tenuous<br \/>\nconnections that tie my ideas together.<\/p>\n<p>The ideas are interesting and important but it is the stuff that<br \/>\nconnects them that is what makes them so.  And sometimes it&#8217;s hard to<br \/>\ncome up with the words to describe the strange and mysterious fibers<br \/>\nthat intertwine and connect ideas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years I&#8217;ve tried to use outliners. For some reason I can&#8217;t get my ideas to fit into that kind of structure. I was just thinking that my thoughts and processing of them aren&#8217;t hierarchical, but instead more like procedural &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/?p=969\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kattywilly.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}