{"id":274712,"date":"2010-02-04T03:35:43","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T08:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kempton.wordpress.com\/?p=9478"},"modified":"2010-02-04T03:35:43","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T08:35:43","slug":"j-k-rowling-harvard-%e2%80%93-the-fringe-benefits-of-failure-and-the-importance-of-imagination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/274712","title":{"rendered":"J.K. Rowling @ Harvard \u2013 The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/J._K._Rowling\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/J._K._Rowling\" ><br \/>\nJ.K. Rowling<\/a>, author of the best-selling Harry Potter book series, delivers her Commencement Address, \u201c<strong><a title=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/1711302\" href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/1711302\" >The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination<\/a><\/strong>,\u201d at the Annual Meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association. (via <a title=\"http:\/\/harvardmagazine.com\/\" href=\"http:\/\/harvardmagazine.com\/\" >harvardmagazine.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><br \/>\n<object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" data=\"http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1711302&amp;server=www.vimeo.com&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=01AAEA\"><param name=\"quality\" value=\"best\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"scale\" value=\"showAll\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=1711302&amp;server=www.vimeo.com&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=01AAEA\" \/><\/object><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[HT <a title=\"http:\/\/paul.kedrosky.com\/archives\/2010\/02\/jk_on_the_fring.html\" href=\"http:\/\/paul.kedrosky.com\/archives\/2010\/02\/jk_on_the_fring.html\" >Paul<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Filed under: <a href='http:\/\/kempton.wordpress.com\/category\/insightful\/'>insightful<\/a>, <a href='http:\/\/kempton.wordpress.com\/category\/people\/'>people<\/a>, <a href='http:\/\/kempton.wordpress.com\/category\/uk\/'>UK<\/a>, <a href='http:\/\/kempton.wordpress.com\/category\/united-states\/'>united states<\/a>, <a href='http:\/\/kempton.wordpress.com\/category\/video\/'>Video<\/a>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/kempton.wordpress.com\/9478\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/kempton.wordpress.com\/9478\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/kempton.wordpress.com\/9478\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/kempton.wordpress.com\/9478\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/kempton.wordpress.com\/9478\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/kempton.wordpress.com\/9478\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/kempton.wordpress.com\/9478\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/kempton.wordpress.com\/9478\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/kempton.wordpress.com\/9478\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/kempton.wordpress.com\/9478\/\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=kempton.wordpress.com&#038;blog=364107&#038;post=9478&#038;subd=kempton&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J.K. Rowling, author of the best-selling Harry Potter book series, delivers her Commencement Address, \u201cThe Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination,\u201d at the Annual Meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association. (via harvardmagazine.com) [HT Paul] Filed under: insightful, people, UK, united states, Video<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-274712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}