{"id":2999,"date":"2012-04-29T07:31:44","date_gmt":"2012-04-29T11:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2012\/04\/breathed-upon\/"},"modified":"2012-04-29T07:31:44","modified_gmt":"2012-04-29T11:31:44","slug":"breathed-upon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2012\/04\/breathed-upon\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Breathed Upon&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Artists often credit an external source for their creativity. What I didn&#39;t know until I read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Imagine-Creativity-Works-Jonah-Lehrer\/dp\/0547386079\" target=\"_self\"><em>Imagine<\/em><\/a> was how prevalent this notion was in the past:<\/p>\n<p><em>&quot;&#8230; until the Enlightenment, the imagination was entirely synonymous with higher powers: being creative meant channeling the muses, giving voice to the ingenious gods. (Inspiration, after all, literally means &quot;breathed upon.&quot;)<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"tpad-img-center\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b016304ed3fc6970d-800wi\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"238\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a01156f6c1fc1970b016304ed3fc6970d\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6a01156f6c1fc1970b016304ed3fc6970d-500wi.jpg\" title=\"238\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artists often credit an external source for their creativity. What I didn&#39;t know until I read Imagine was how prevalent this notion was in the past: &quot;&#8230; until the Enlightenment, the imagination was entirely synonymous with higher powers: being creative meant channeling the muses, giving voice to the ingenious gods. (Inspiration, after all, literally means [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-nature","category-new-paltz-ny","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}