{"id":45011,"date":"2010-12-12T03:58:44","date_gmt":"2010-12-12T03:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/there-is-a-myth-common-in-american-culture-that\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T17:10:01","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T00:10:01","slug":"there-is-a-myth-common-in-american-culture-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/there-is-a-myth-common-in-american-culture-that\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-45011 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/there-is-a-myth-common-in-american-culture-that\/attachment\/45012\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_ldar1yo0Oc1qescblo1_640-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>There is a myth, common in American culture, that work and play are entirely separate activities. I believe they are more entwined than ever before. As the Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget once said, \u201cPlay is the answer to how anything new comes about.\u201d A playful mind thrives on ambiguity, complexity, and improvisation\u2014the very things needed to innovate and come up with creative solutions to the massive global challenges in economics, the environment, education, and more. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcodesign.com\/1662826\/frog-design-the-four-secrets-of-playtime-that-foster-creative-kids\">Frog Design: The Four Secrets of Playtime That Foster Creative Kids | Co.Design<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a myth, common in American culture, that work and play are entirely separate activities. I believe they are more entwined than ever before. As the Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget once said, \u201cPlay is the answer to how anything new comes about.\u201d A playful mind thrives on ambiguity, complexity, and improvisation\u2014the very things needed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[1537,560],"class_list":["post-45011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","tag-critical-toys","tag-toy","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-bHZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45013,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45011\/revisions\/45013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}