{"id":80,"date":"2016-08-11T11:53:39","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T11:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alanswan.com\/?p=80"},"modified":"2016-08-11T20:42:09","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T20:42:09","slug":"the-crystal-ball-of-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/alanswan.com\/index.php\/2016\/08\/11\/the-crystal-ball-of-content\/","title":{"rendered":"The Crystal Ball of Content"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favourite podcasts is <a href=\"http:\/\/anirishmanabroad.podbean.com\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cAn Irishman Abroad\u201d<\/a> produced and presented by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigser.com\/wordpress\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jarlath Regan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>His recent interview with comedian Dylan Moran really struck a chord with me and revealed a wonderful obeservation of what content makers should be looking for when seeking inspiration on what to talk about, what to write about.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;The universals are indeed the universals. They apply everywhere. What obsesses everyone is the same stuff. You know what? The best guide to &#8230; if you&#8217;re thinking of &#8230; sitting around thinking about what to write about. What can I talk about? I mean the what is a lot less important than the how most of the time anyway, but you know what the stuff that gets people directly? Or what engages nervous people is? It&#8217;s everything that someone would go and ask a fortune teller about.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What are they gonna ask an old lady with a crystal ball in a tent? It&#8217;s love, family, health, death, illness\u2026 \u00a0They&#8217;re all the things that the big engines turning in people&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And it&#8217;s true. The primal topics of family, relationships, love, death can provide so much content. It&#8217;s a brilliant yet simple observation from Moran. So what would you ask a fortune teller? That question could provide you with the inspiration for your next big piece of content.<\/p>\n<p><em>Jarlath Regan&#8217;s full podcast is available <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/an-irishman-abroad\">here<\/a>. I recommend his conversations with writer Louise O\u2019Neill, broadcaster Baz Ashmawy and sportsman Ronan O\u2019Gara.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Picture: The Amazing Zoltar by Nancy &#8211; I\u2019m gonna SNAP! <a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/pPFjYg\">https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/pPFjYg<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favourite podcasts is \u201cAn Irishman Abroad\u201d produced and presented by Jarlath Regan. His recent interview with comedian Dylan Moran really struck a chord with me and revealed a wonderful obeservation of what content makers should be looking for when seeking inspiration on what to talk about, what to write about. &#8220;The universals&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[18,15,14,13,12,17,16,10,19],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/alanswan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/15635754159_d3c4d254ba_b.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/alanswan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/alanswan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/alanswan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alanswan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alanswan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/alanswan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91,"href":"http:\/\/alanswan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/91"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alanswan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/alanswan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alanswan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alanswan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}