{"id":13745,"date":"2026-01-06T14:54:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T13:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/?p=13745"},"modified":"2026-08-15T19:57:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T17:57:55","slug":"ii-5-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/ii-5-ideas\/","title":{"rendered":"method &#8211; 5-  Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A word, a sentence, or a thought comes to mind, or I have an idea. I jot it down on a strip of paper, date it, and note the exact time. This can happen in the middle of the night. Then I tuck the strip of paper into my work journal. Just as the traffic lights on a highway guide me on my nighttime drive, I follow these ideas and finally write something down.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13873\" src=\"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/P1180017-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/P1180017-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/P1180017-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/P1180017-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/P1180017-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/P1180017-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Foto: you&#8217;re traveling somewhere, staying in an airbnb. It&#8217;s raining nonstop. You&#8217;re freezing. You&#8217;re lying in bed, jotting things down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A word, a sentence, or a thought comes to mind, or I have an idea. I jot it down on a strip of paper, date it, and note the exact time. This can happen in the middle of the night. Then I tuck the strip of paper into my work journal. Just as the traffic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11796,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-method"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13745"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17821,"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13745\/revisions\/17821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preserving-family-history.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}