{"id":160,"date":"2007-07-27T11:34:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-27T17:34:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-09-16T14:55:29","modified_gmt":"2008-09-16T20:55:29","slug":"134","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/134","title":{"rendered":"Distracted Losers, And The Lonely Bodies They Leave In Their Wake."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Man, I will be the first to admit I am the absolute worst at keeping touch with folks.\u00a0 It&#8217;s shameful that I think of my family and friends quite often, but never think to sit down and email or call&#8230; and that&#8217;s what it boils down to, I don&#8217;t think about it.\u00a0 I burn so many brain cells at work, spending them to very intensely focus on the projects and problems I am working on, that by the time I get home, I&#8217;m ready to not think about anything.\u00a0 I check my email, respond to the things that float into my attention there and then move on to the autonomic tasks at hand: during the week I cook dinner, on the weekends I&#8217;m usually out doing something that doesn&#8217;t involve sitting in front of a computer all day.\u00a0 Add to that the fact that I&#8217;m in the gym in the morning doing cardio, and back there again three evenings a week, and you&#8217;ve got one tired and distracted me.<\/p>\n<p><sub>*this entry was swiped from an email I wrote to my brother<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man, I will be the first to admit I am the absolute worst at keeping touch with folks.\u00a0 It&#8217;s shameful that I think of my family and friends quite often, but never think to sit down and email or call&#8230; and that&#8217;s what it boils down to, I don&#8217;t think about it.\u00a0 I burn so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,11,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-friends","category-reflection"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":576,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}