{"id":1654,"date":"2008-01-14T13:16:30","date_gmt":"2008-01-14T18:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=1654"},"modified":"2008-01-14T13:16:30","modified_gmt":"2008-01-14T18:16:30","slug":"on-fleeting-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1654","title":{"rendered":"On Fleeting Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, while in the shower, I had an absolutely <i>brilliant<\/i> idea for a blog post.<\/p>\n<p>So, naturally, I completely lost it moments later.<\/p>\n<p>This seems typical.<\/p>\n<p>I know there&#8217;s something missing in my mind &mdash; these ideas, that is &mdash; because I can &#8220;feel&#8221; the space the idea once occupied, only I have no idea what the idea was or where it came from.  It&#8217;s like the episode of <i>Challenge of the Super-Friends<\/i> with Hawkman Day &mdash; the Super-Friends knew that time had been tampered with the Legion of Doom, because there were gaps in the Hall of Justice&#8217;s computer memory banks.<\/p>\n<p>Geeky analogy, I know.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s how it is.  Fleeting thoughts, as they race through the mind.  They&#8217;re like neutrino streaks through pure titanium.  The neutrino itself is gone; only the etched track remains.<\/p>\n<p>Such is life. <img src=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/mrgreen.png\" alt=\":mrgreen:\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, while in the shower, I had an absolutely brilliant idea for a blog post. So, naturally, I completely lost it moments later. This seems typical. I know there&#8217;s something missing in my mind &mdash; these ideas, that is &mdash; because I can &#8220;feel&#8221; the space the idea once occupied, only I have no<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1654\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Fleeting Thoughts&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[4093],"class_list":["post-1654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides","tag-life","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}