{"id":3702,"date":"2016-05-20T09:45:40","date_gmt":"2016-05-20T14:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=3702"},"modified":"2016-05-20T10:08:44","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T15:08:44","slug":"inspiration-sometimes-falters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=3702","title":{"rendered":"Inspiration Sometimes Falters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When talking of inspirations, a fellow art quilter wrote today <em>\u00a0&#8220;I have a million ideas and only a few are taken to the next<\/em> step&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?attachment_id=3703\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3703\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3703\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?attachment_id=3703\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/things-that-didnt-go-anywhere-1-blog.jpg?fit=500%2C375&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"500,375\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1124706433&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"things that didn&amp;#8217;t go anywhere 1 blog\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/things-that-didnt-go-anywhere-1-blog.jpg?fit=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/things-that-didnt-go-anywhere-1-blog.jpg?fit=500%2C375&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3703\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/things-that-didnt-go-anywhere-1-blog.jpg?resize=500%2C375&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"things that didn't go anywhere 1 blog\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/things-that-didnt-go-anywhere-1-blog.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/things-that-didnt-go-anywhere-1-blog.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just yesterday while looking through old photo files for something I couldn&#8217;t find, I found and actually labelled these two pics as &#8220;things that didn&#8217;t go anywhere&#8221; #1 and #2 , and it doesn&#8217;t matter which is which!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?attachment_id=3704\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3704\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3704\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?attachment_id=3704\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/things-that-didnt-go-anywhere-2-blog.jpg?fit=500%2C667&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"500,667\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1126262209&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"things that didn&amp;#8217;t go anywhere 2 blog\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/things-that-didnt-go-anywhere-2-blog.jpg?fit=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/things-that-didnt-go-anywhere-2-blog.jpg?fit=500%2C667&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3704\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/things-that-didnt-go-anywhere-2-blog.jpg?resize=500%2C667&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"things that didn't go anywhere 2 blog\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/things-that-didnt-go-anywhere-2-blog.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/things-that-didnt-go-anywhere-2-blog.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the immortal words of \u00a0Kenny Rogers&#8217; song <em>The Gambler<\/em>\u00a0&#8211; &#8220;You gotta know when to hold &#8217;em, know when to fold &#8217;em, Know when to walk away, know when to run.&#8221; \u00a0though I&#8217;ve never done anything so awful I had to run!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When talking of inspirations, a fellow art quilter wrote today \u00a0&#8220;I have a million ideas and only a few are taken to the next step&#8221;. &nbsp; Just yesterday while looking through old photo files for something I couldn&#8217;t find, I found and actually labelled these two pics as &#8220;things that didn&#8217;t go anywhere&#8221; #1 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6uxpF-XI","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3702"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3709,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3702\/revisions\/3709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}