{"id":134,"date":"2010-12-07T14:33:46","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T22:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flathed.com\/blogHED\/?p=134"},"modified":"2010-12-07T14:33:46","modified_gmt":"2010-12-07T22:33:46","slug":"whats-the-big-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/2010\/12\/07\/whats-the-big-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s The Big Idea?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The teaser on the cover of the National Geographic was \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/ngm.nationalgeographic.com\/big-idea\/16\/little-packages\">Little Ideas That Can Change The World<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0 And yeah, it sometimes is that simple, isn\u2019t it?\u00a0 A tiny notion that leads to something huge.\u00a0 There\u2019s a Peter Gabriel song I like a lot called <em>Mercy Street<\/em>.\u00a0 There\u2019s a line in it that always gets me; \u201cAll of the buildings, all of the cars\/Were once just a dream\/In somebody\u2019s head.\u201d\u00a0 I think of those lyrics often.\u00a0 When I\u2019m wowed by some technological marvel, or some simple device that\u2019s made my life easier in some way.\u00a0 It was all just an idea someone had once.<\/p>\n<p>The products spotlighted in the article are changing the world, make no mistake about it.\u00a0 A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vestergaard-frandsen.com\/lifestraw\">purifying straw<\/a> to give people access to clean water isn\u2019t just a neat idea, it\u2019s lifesaving and <a href=\"http:\/\/laptop.org\/en\/laptop\/index.shtml\">affordable laptops<\/a> for schools open the world up for kids in ways that so many of us take for granted.\u00a0 Ideas are powerful things that can, and do, change the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The teaser on the cover of the National Geographic was \u201cLittle Ideas That Can Change The World.\u201d\u00a0 And yeah, it sometimes is that simple, isn\u2019t it?\u00a0 A tiny notion that leads to something huge.\u00a0 There\u2019s a Peter Gabriel song I like a lot called Mercy Street.\u00a0 There\u2019s a line in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-designnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136,"href":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions\/136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/flathed.com\/details\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}