{"id":362,"date":"2010-04-11T17:20:14","date_gmt":"2010-04-11T21:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/creatived\/wp\/2010\/04\/10_little_questions\/"},"modified":"2010-04-11T17:20:14","modified_gmt":"2010-04-11T21:20:14","slug":"10_little_questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/creatived\/2010\/04\/10_little_questions.html","title":{"rendered":"10 little questions"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"thinking<\/p>\n

Over the past two weeks I’ve been either attending or conducting concerts woven around a central idea. As both an audience member and as a performer, what struck me was the realization that these were as much projects as they were concerts, and that those projects created a following (read audience or community) around the organizing ideas.  <\/p>\n

That led me to think about the way communities are formed, how they sustain themselves, and why they stay alive or die.<\/p>\n

Mulling over the subject, in turn, led to these ten little questions. Perhaps they will provoke your own thinking as well. <\/p>\n

1. What if communities are the manifestation of ideas?<\/p>\n

2. Is that how communities are born? <\/p>\n

3. Is a community what you get when you commit yourself to an idea?<\/p>\n

4. Does a good idea make a good community?<\/p>\n

5. Do you know the value of an idea by the nature of the community that forms around it?<\/p>\n

6. Does a large idea necessarily make a large community?<\/p>\n

7. Is it better to have a large community around a tepid idea, or a smaller community around a passionately-held idea?<\/p>\n

8. Can you have an idea and no community?<\/p>\n

9. Can you have a community and no idea?<\/p>\n

10. Is the absence of a central idea how communities die?\n<\/p>\n

<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over the past two weeks I’ve been either attending or conducting concerts woven around a central idea. As both an audience member and as a performer, what struck me was the realization that these were as much projects as they were concerts, and that those projects created a following (read audience or community) around the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-362","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/creatived\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/creatived\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/creatived\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/creatived\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/creatived\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/creatived\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/creatived\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/creatived\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/creatived\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}