{"id":2330,"date":"2013-09-11T13:20:36","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T13:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/?p=2330"},"modified":"2013-09-11T13:22:31","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T13:22:31","slug":"the-busy-trap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/11\/the-busy-trap\/","title":{"rendered":"The ‘Busy’ Trap"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Oh, I agree with this so much. It’s a big part of why I stay in Asheville — most of the people I know here keep their lives in reasonable balance. -egg]<\/p>\n

The present hysteria is not a necessary or inevitable condition of life; it\u2019s something we\u2019ve chosen, if only by our acquiescence to it. Not long ago I Skyped with a friend who was driven out of the city by high rent and now has an artist\u2019s residency in a small town in the south of France. She described herself as happy and relaxed for the first time in years. She still gets her work done, but it doesn\u2019t consume her entire day and brain […] What she had mistakenly assumed was her personality \u2014 driven, cranky, anxious and sad \u2014 turned out to be a deformative effect of her environment. It\u2019s not as if any of us wants to live like this, any more than any one person wants to be part of a traffic jam or stadium trampling or the hierarchy of cruelty in high school \u2014 it\u2019s something we collectively force one another to do.<\/p>\n

via The ‘Busy’ Trap<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Oh, I agree with this so much. It’s a big part of why I stay in Asheville — most of the people I know here keep their lives in reasonable balance. -egg] The present hysteria is not a necessary or inevitable condition of life; it\u2019s something we\u2019ve chosen, if only by our acquiescence to it. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-BA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2331,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2330\/revisions\/2331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}