{"id":4305,"date":"2012-07-03T22:51:21","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T22:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=4305"},"modified":"2012-07-11T00:42:39","modified_gmt":"2012-07-11T00:42:39","slug":"a-long-extract-but-worth-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/03\/a-long-extract-but-worth-it\/","title":{"rendered":"a long extract but worth it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from the<em><a href=\"http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/06\/30\/the-busy-trap\/?src=me&amp;ref=general\" target=\"_blank\"> new york times<\/a>,<\/em> apparently i&#8217;m very late to this. but it did resonate.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Busyness serves as a kind of existential reassurance, a hedge against emptiness &#8230; More and more people in this country no longer make or do anything tangible; if your job wasn\u2019t performed by a cat or a boa constrictor in a Richard Scarry book I\u2019m not sure I believe it\u2019s necessary. I can\u2019t help but wonder whether all this histrionic exhaustion isn\u2019t a way of covering up the fact that most of what we do doesn\u2019t matter.<\/p>\n<p>I am not busy. I am the laziest ambitious person I know. &#8230; On the best ordinary days of my life, I write in the morning, go for a long bike ride and run errands in the afternoon, and in the evening I see friends, read or watch a movie. This, it seems to me, is a sane and pleasant pace for a day. And if you call me up and ask whether I won\u2019t maybe blow off work and check out the new American Wing at the Met or ogle girls in Central Park or just drink chilled pink minty cocktails all day long, I will say, what time?<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from the new york times, apparently i&#8217;m very late to this. but it did resonate. Busyness serves as a kind of existential reassurance, a hedge against emptiness &#8230; More and more people in this country no longer make or do anything tangible; if your job wasn\u2019t performed by a cat or a boa constrictor in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4305"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4318,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4305\/revisions\/4318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}