{"id":3238,"date":"2018-08-13T22:08:06","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T22:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nosmallthing.net\/main\/?p=3238"},"modified":"2018-08-13T22:08:06","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T22:08:06","slug":"mother-of-invention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nosmallthing.net\/main\/mother-of-invention\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother of Invention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They say that \u201cNecessity is the Mother of Invention.\u201d\u00a0 I\u2019d say \u201cwhimsy\u201d is a close runner up.\u00a0 Years ago, I wrote a booklet called <strong>50 Great Inventions \u2013 You\u2019ll Probably Never See.<\/strong> I catalogued concepts for inventions like the noodle scissors (preventing uncouth spaghetti slurping) and inflatable lawyers (blow-up, pin stripe suited dolls with pre-recorded messages that can threaten an adversary into reasonable behavior).\u00a0 The exercise of thinking of inventions that could solve problems is amazing!\u00a0 Can you think of some inventions you especially grateful for?\u00a0 Can you connect with gratitude for your imagination for conceiving something that doesn\u2019t yet exist?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They say that \u201cNecessity is the Mother of Invention.\u201d\u00a0 I\u2019d say \u201cwhimsy\u201d is a close runner up&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc","category-tip"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mother of Invention &#8211; 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