{"id":146,"date":"2007-10-05T11:08:44","date_gmt":"2007-10-05T03:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=146"},"modified":"2007-10-05T11:08:44","modified_gmt":"2007-10-05T03:08:44","slug":"inspiration-in-unexpected-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=146","title":{"rendered":"Inspiration in unexpected places"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/518c5ea4-447f-11dc-90ca-0000779fd2ac.html\">article in the FT<\/a> (admittedly a while ago, but I&#8217;m playing catchup) comes this great little quote about the Edinburgh Fringe Festival:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><br \/>\nHolidaying executives, hoping to recharge amid all this artistic experimentation, might not expect to pick up ideas to take back to work with them in September. But perhaps they shouldn&#8217;t switch off their business brains altogether. As William Taylor and Polly La Barre pointed out last year in their entertaining book, Mavericks at Work: &#8220;The Fringe is more than performance art. It is a colourful symbol of the performance of open-source innovation.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From an article in the FT (admittedly a while ago, but I&#8217;m playing catchup) comes this great little quote about the Edinburgh Fringe Festival: Holidaying executives, hoping to recharge amid all this artistic experimentation, might not expect to pick up ideas to take back to work with them in September. But perhaps they shouldn&#8217;t switch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-the-fringes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}