{"id":16814,"date":"2011-02-08T08:42:12","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T15:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/?p=3641"},"modified":"2011-02-08T08:42:12","modified_gmt":"2011-02-08T15:42:12","slug":"kim-jong-phil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/08\/kim-jong-phil\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim Jong Phil"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;I\u2019ve concluded that to be effective&#8211;to be functional&#8211;I must guzzle an eye-popping cocktail of delusion and narcissism.<br \/>\nIt occurred to me that being an artist* is a great deal like being a dictator.<br \/>\nJust like a dictator, I must live in a closed loop of self-delusion&#8230;&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is now easily <a href=\"http:\/\/kimjongphil.com\/\">one of my favorite things ever<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/kottke.org\/11\/02\/a-closed-loop-of-self-delusion\">Via<\/a>]<br \/>\n<em>* For &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/biblio?isbn=9780679745068\">artist<\/a>&#8221; also swap in &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/changethis.com\/manifesto\/show\/32.01.UpsideAssholes\">great product manager<\/a>&#8221; (says the guy with <a href=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/vainglory\/?detectflash=false&#038;\">3D-printed busts<\/a> of himself) ;-)). And no, I don&#8217;t *really* believe this, though sometimes you&#8217;ve gotta fight for your vision, and &#8220;all progress depends on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quotationspage.com\/subjects\/progress\/\">unreasonable man<\/a>.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I\u2019ve concluded that to be effective&#8211;to be functional&#8211;I must guzzle an eye-popping cocktail of delusion and narcissism. It occurred to me that being an artist* is a great deal like being a dictator. Just like a dictator, I must live in a closed loop of self-delusion&#8230;&#8221; This is now easily one of my favorite things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16814"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}