{"id":1549,"date":"2022-10-29T15:46:03","date_gmt":"2022-10-29T20:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/?p=1549"},"modified":"2022-10-29T15:46:03","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T20:46:03","slug":"dtrh-down-the-rabbit-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/?p=1549","title":{"rendered":"DTRH – Down The Rabbit Hole"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just by the nature of my particular derangement of the mind<\/em> and the way it causes me to interact with information, I have a tendency to enter periods of hyper-fixation<\/em> around a given subject of interest. People talk about ‘falling down a rabbit hole’ when they go to read up on a topic and get more than they bargain for, well as is so often the case with me, I take that to the Nth degree<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This hyper-fixation is also a function of a lack of financial resources; when I find a new interest I wish to pursue, I can never just do so right away, invariably having to work whatever it is I need into the next month’s budget if it’s even affordable. So I absorb all of the information that I can in the meantime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The people around me watch as I go from like 0 to TED Talk on whatever the subject is in a matter of days, and I’m sure from the outside that must look completely insane. Especially considering how disparate the topics are that I’ll latch on to from week-to-week. I know I’ve had more than a few people basically roll their eyes and be like “Oh boy, he’s on some new bullshit now…” but I can’t help it. And it’s not ‘new bullshit’, it’s ‘additional<\/em> bullshit’, I’ll have you know! Because none of these interests or accumulated knowledge go anywhere, they all become part of my creative toolbox and my vast pool of inspiration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, this post is the explanation of a new category; posts for documenting the latest rabbit hole I’ve taken a tumble down. Might as well document this shit, otherwise I’m just accumulating knowledge as a means of self-gratification, right?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a brief why and what-for of the forthcoming “Down The Rabbit Hole” category of posts, describing the latest thing I’ve hyper-fixated on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[13,93],"tags":[94,95],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-1549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-down-the-rabbit-hole","tag-category","tag-information"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NlLW-oZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1550,"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549\/revisions\/1550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1549"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fwf_post_folders&post=1549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}