{"id":290,"date":"2009-02-15T08:00:18","date_gmt":"2009-02-15T12:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/?p=290"},"modified":"2009-02-14T11:58:22","modified_gmt":"2009-02-14T15:58:22","slug":"more-time-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/more-time-needed\/","title":{"rendered":"More Time Needed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wish I had more time for everything because there are so many things that interest me. It&#8217;s inevitable that I discover and archive, drive by, dream up, and am assigned much more than I&#8217;ll ever be able to take in thoughtfully. And that is just one day. The next day it starts all over again. It&#8217;s not a feeling of being overwhelmed as much as it is disappointment that I can&#8217;t effectively absorb more.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if I would feel the same way if I stopped reading so many blogs, twitter posts, and facebook notifications. Consuming all of that &#8220;pop-life&#8221; is like trying to get my brain to record the lives and events of a thousand different people each day. <\/p>\n<p>It is my hunch that if I were able to better focus on &#8220;local-me&#8221; that I would find each day more fulfilling and, in turn, less stuffed. And who I am trying to prove something to &#8211; that I care about all of the useless gadgetry, latest fashions, and most obscure routines of people I&#8217;ll never know? It can&#8217;t be anyone except myself. <\/p>\n<p>So many people.<br \/>\nSo many stories.<br \/>\nSo many facts.<br \/>\nSo little time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wish I had more time for everything because there are so many things that interest me. It&#8217;s inevitable that I discover and archive, drive by, dream up, and am assigned much more than I&#8217;ll ever be able to take in thoughtfully. And that is just one day. The next day it starts all over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[57,106,156,155,157],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-our-experiences","tag-blog","tag-facebook","tag-information","tag-time","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":293,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions\/293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}