{"id":2927,"date":"2013-12-01T08:34:33","date_gmt":"2013-12-01T13:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2013\/12\/doing-nothing\/"},"modified":"2013-12-01T08:34:33","modified_gmt":"2013-12-01T13:34:33","slug":"doing-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2013\/12\/doing-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"Doing Nothing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a NY TIMES op-ed, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/11\/30\/opinion\/homage-to-the-idols-of-idleness.html\" target=\"_self\">&quot;Homage to the Idols of Idleness&quot;<\/a>, Jessica Kerwin Jenkins explores how clocks may be keeping us from experiencing the benefits of unstructured time \u2013\u2013 here&#39;s an excerpt:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8230; for artists, doing nothing was a fount of freedom. [Robert Louis] Stevenson &#8230; raised a rallying cry with his 1876 screed, \u201cAn Apology for Idlers,\u201d diagnosing extreme busyness as \u201ca symptom of deficient vitality.\u201d In the 20th century, Marcel Duchamp was so often found soaking in the tub at the center of his studio that he had a hanging rope installed that allowed him to open the front door without ever getting up. \u201cDeep down I\u2019m enormously lazy,\u201d he said. \u201cI like living, breathing, better than working.\u201d (The French writer Henri-Pierre Roch\u00e9 said of his friend that Duchamp\u2019s \u201cfinest work is his use of time.\u201d Duchamp agreed.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a NY TIMES op-ed, &quot;Homage to the Idols of Idleness&quot;, Jessica Kerwin Jenkins explores how clocks may be keeping us from experiencing the benefits of unstructured time \u2013\u2013 here&#39;s an excerpt: &#8230; for artists, doing nothing was a fount of freedom. [Robert Louis] Stevenson &#8230; raised a rallying cry with his 1876 screed, \u201cAn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2927","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=2927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}