{"id":843,"date":"2007-05-28T21:58:49","date_gmt":"2007-05-29T01:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/?p=843"},"modified":"2012-12-17T23:55:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-18T03:55:00","slug":"third-places-from-9am-to-5pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/third-places-from-9am-to-5pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Third Places from 9am to 5pm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Awhile ago I wrote about \u201c3rd places\u201d &#8211; those places people go to gather, do work when not at work, or just hangout. Coffee shops are a prime example of third places. Bookstores, diners, etc. Often the common denominators between third places are a wifi connection and coffee.<\/p>\n<p>One of the most bizarre things about going back to school in August of 2006 was the daily freedom. No longer did I feel obligated to sit at a specific desk in an office with co-workers. While some of my fellow students preferred to study in the library, sitting in the same spot day after day, I\u2019ve never had a high tolerance for libraries. Instead, I prefer either home or a diner. There is something about having a medium amount of commotion that helps me focus in on what I need to get done. Perhaps, the distractions remind me that I want to be done so that I can get on with my day and enjoy what else there is to do &#8211; walk around outside, go see a movie, or hangout with friends.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/g\/a\/2007\/05\/21\/onthejob.DTL\">recent article<\/a> posited the question of what are all the people doing that walk around during the day. Don\u2019t they work? This isn\u2019t as interesting of a question as it may have once been. When I did work, I hardly worked a 9-to-5 job. I had relative freedom to set my own hours when we weren\u2019t super busy, which allowed me to work from a coffee shop near my house on Fridays or travel and work.<\/p>\n<p>Seeing people hanging out at 3rd places between the hours of 9am to 5pm seems more normal than weird these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awhile ago I wrote about \u201c3rd places\u201d &#8211; those places people go to gather, do work when not at work, or just hangout. Coffee shops are a prime example of third places. Bookstores, diners, etc. Often the common denominators between third places are a wifi connection and coffee. One of the most bizarre things about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128,3],"tags":[683,685,684,686,481,682],"class_list":["post-843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-our-experiences","tag-comfort","tag-culture","tag-gather","tag-habits","tag-location","tag-third-place"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843","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=843"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3270,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions\/3270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}