{"id":125,"date":"2005-02-09T02:50:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-09T02:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/weblog\/?p=125"},"modified":"2005-02-09T02:50:00","modified_gmt":"2005-02-09T02:50:00","slug":"postcreative-depression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/weblog\/2005\/02\/postcreative-depression\/","title":{"rendered":"Postcreative depression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been so excited programming at work that I got up and went to work early. Now if you know me I wake up early anyway so I got up even earlier &#8211; now that&#8217;s saying something. Well I got to work and started right in programming. I was focused. At about 1:30 PM having taken 22 1\/2 hours over the past four days it was done. It was working. It was organized. It was slick. I was feeling the internal joy of attacking this challenge, surmounting the obstacle, and achieving this self-set goal. I posted the results in our code repository. Afterwards I felt relieved but somewhat sad. I no longer had that tingle. My next job was to do system design documentation and had nothing to do with this programming. I consider it more drudge and less creative. The adrenaline was gone. So by 5 PM I was totally exhausted. My brain didn&#8217;t want to work anymore. I walked slowly down the walk to my car and went home. I was feeling postcreative depression.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been so excited programming at work that I got up and went to work early. Now if you know me I wake up early anyway so I got up even earlier &#8211; now that&#8217;s saying something. Well I got to work and started right in programming. I was focused. At about 1:30 PM [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1fifoto.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}