{"id":17724,"date":"2018-03-12T12:01:46","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T16:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=17724"},"modified":"2018-03-10T19:59:10","modified_gmt":"2018-03-11T00:59:10","slug":"where-does-creativity-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/where-does-creativity-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Where does creativity go?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-17725 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/alsc1-650x580.jpg\" alt=\"Somedays I just don't got it. Where the heck does creativity go when it's inaccessible?  And what brings it back? In Elizabeth Gilbert's Big Magic, she says creativity is something that has to be lured with work and communication. \" width=\"640\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/alsc1-650x580.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/alsc1-300x268.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/alsc1-768x685.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/alsc1-561x500.jpg 561w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/alsc1-101x90.jpg 101w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-17726 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/3078_001-650x392.jpg\" alt=\"Albert Einstein recommends combinatory play, &quot;the act of opening up one mental channel by dabbling in another&quot; (I'm done with math, maybe cooking will help&quot;). I believe in complaining and taking a break. What works for you?\" width=\"640\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/3078_001-650x392.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/3078_001-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/3078_001-768x464.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/3078_001-828x500.jpg 828w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/3078_001-149x90.jpg 149w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Lisa Nowlain is the Youth Librarian at Madelyn Helling Library in Nevada County, CA. She is also an artist type.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Lisa Nowlain is the Youth Librarian at Madelyn Helling Library in Nevada County, CA. She is also an artist type.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":220,"featured_media":17727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[830,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogger-lisa-nowlain","category-slice-of-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/220"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}