{"id":2990,"date":"2012-07-03T10:49:22","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T14:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2012\/07\/the-busy-trap\/"},"modified":"2012-07-03T10:49:22","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T14:49:22","slug":"the-busy-trap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2012\/07\/the-busy-trap\/","title":{"rendered":"The Busy Trap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a thoughtful, provocative, must-read op-ed <a href=\"http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/06\/30\/the-busy-trap\/?smid=fb-share\" target=\"_self\">piece<\/a> in the NY TIMES this week, here is an excerpt from Tim Kreider&#39;s &quot;The Busy Trap.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIdleness is not just a vacation, an indulgence or a vice; it is as indispensable to the brain as vitamin D is to the body, and deprived of it we suffer a mental affliction as disfiguring as rickets. The space and quiet that idleness provides is a necessary condition for standing back from life and seeing it whole, for making unexpected connections and waiting for the wild summer lightning strikes of inspiration \u2014 it is, paradoxically, necessary to getting any work done.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a thoughtful, provocative, must-read op-ed piece in the NY TIMES this week, here is an excerpt from Tim Kreider&#39;s &quot;The Busy Trap.&quot; \u201cIdleness is not just a vacation, an indulgence or a vice; it is as indispensable to the brain as vitamin D is to the body, and deprived of it we suffer a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,4,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-creativity","category-nature","category-new-paltz-ny","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990","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=2990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}