{"id":2362,"date":"2010-12-13T12:09:30","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T17:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/?p=2362"},"modified":"2010-12-13T12:09:30","modified_gmt":"2010-12-13T17:09:30","slug":"the-tool-in-your-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/2010\/12\/13\/the-tool-in-your-head\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tool in Your Head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Wrenches.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/images\/tools.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"375\" \/>I was hired at most of the jobs I&#8217;ve had for no other reason than I know certain programs or how to use certain tools.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve run lathes, made molds, drove forklifts, and used other machinery; I&#8217;ve taught myself billing systems, piles of Microsoft products, piles of Adobe products, and many other programs.<\/p>\n<p>The sad thing? Rarely have I done anything creative at most of those jobs.<\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s one of the reasons I love writing so much &#8212; no matter how bad a job was, I still used my brain everyday to create things that made me happy and proud.<\/p>\n<p>This week, whether it&#8217;s at work or home, make sure the tools you&#8217;re using help you create something you&#8217;re proud of, instead of letting the tools dictate what you do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was hired at most of the jobs I&#8217;ve had for no other reason than I know certain programs or how to use certain tools. I&#8217;ve run lathes, made molds, drove forklifts, and used other machinery; I&#8217;ve taught myself billing systems, piles of Microsoft products, piles of Adobe products, and many other programs. The sad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.christophergronlund.com\/blog\/tjw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}