{"id":2239,"date":"2025-01-17T09:48:58","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T14:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/?p=2239"},"modified":"2025-01-29T12:19:17","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T17:19:17","slug":"why-we-cant-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/?p=2239","title":{"rendered":"Why We Can&#8217;t Focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite books is Neil Postman&#8217;s &#8220;Amusing Ourselves to Death&#8221;. Postman eerily predicted the current age of social media as a natural progression of the age of television, and he did it back in the early 80&#8217;s. This video does a fantastic job of laying out one of Postman&#8217;s best arguments. It is exactly how I feel about the subject.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6QltxZ-vPMc?si=xs-vFdqulGIyEb2t\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>He mentions a book called &#8220;The Shallows&#8221; by Nicholas Carr. I&#8217;ll be ordering that one as well. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite books is Neil Postman&#8217;s &#8220;Amusing Ourselves to Death&#8221;. Postman eerily predicted the current age of social media as a natural progression of the age of television, and he did it back in the early 80&#8217;s. This &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/?p=2239\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-and-society","category-technology"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/?author=1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2240,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2239\/revisions\/2240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}