{"id":4948,"date":"2015-05-16T22:20:14","date_gmt":"2015-05-16T20:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/?p=4948"},"modified":"2015-06-07T10:26:50","modified_gmt":"2015-06-07T08:26:50","slug":"heres-to-the-crazy-ones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/2015\/05\/heres-to-the-crazy-ones\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s to the crazy ones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple&#8217;s iconic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8rwsuXHA7RA\" target=\"_blank\">Think Different ad<\/a> celebrated the crazy ones among us, proclaiming that &#8220;the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>At the very least, being crazy means that you&#8217;re busy living. Your brain is firing synapses, your imagination is soaring, and while everyone else thinks you&#8217;re not thinking straight, in your heart and mind you have perfect clarity of what could be. And in the time it takes for others to catch up, you&#8217;re already dreaming of tomorrow. <\/p>\n<p>I wouldn&#8217;t want it any other way.<\/p>\n<p>And neither did Roald Dahl, who used his story of Matilda to praise the irrational and unbalanced, the totally unreasonable and incredibly unhinged. The crazy ones. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/mtlda2.png\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple&#8217;s iconic Think Different ad celebrated the crazy ones among us, proclaiming that &#8220;the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do&#8221;. At the very least, being crazy means that you&#8217;re busy living. Your brain is firing synapses, your imagination is soaring,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/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:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4948"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4948"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4951,"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4948\/revisions\/4951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonelk.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}