{"id":3615,"date":"2010-06-03T14:09:58","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T18:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=3615"},"modified":"2010-06-03T14:09:58","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T18:09:58","slug":"relearning-how-to-concentrate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=3615","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Relearning how to concentrate&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/2010\/20_2_snd-concentration.html\">Here an Englishman talks about distraction<\/a>.  Alain de Botton writes, &#8220;The past decade has seen an unparalleled assault on our capacity to fix our minds steadily on anything. To sit still and think, without succumbing to an anxious reach for a machine, has become almost impossible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He is the author of many books, including <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/037542444X?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=brandbooks-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=037542444X\">The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=brandbooks-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=037542444X\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here an Englishman talks about distraction. Alain de Botton writes, &#8220;The past decade has seen an unparalleled assault on our capacity to fix our minds steadily on anything. To sit still and think, without succumbing to an anxious reach for a machine, has become almost impossible.&#8221; He is the author of many books, including The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=3615\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&quot;Relearning how to concentrate&quot;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}