{"id":538,"date":"2020-08-05T21:56:04","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T05:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/?p=538"},"modified":"2020-08-05T21:56:04","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T05:56:04","slug":"the-sound-of-sprinklers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/05\/the-sound-of-sprinklers\/","title":{"rendered":"The sound of sprinklers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sometimes you focus your attention somewhere and sometimes something grabs your attention and focuses it upon itself.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sound of sprinklers woke me up this morning and while I tried to pretend that it was a white noise that I could sleep through, I was mostly fooling myself. Which is to say that I wasn&#8217;t fooling anyone at all. My ears heard the sprinklers and couldn&#8217;t go back to sleep.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How many other things are like this? Why would I stubbornly ignore what is obviously eating up my attention? Why not just address the situation? Why ignore it? It&#8217;s not going to go away by itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you focus your attention somewhere and sometimes something grabs your attention and focuses it upon itself.&nbsp; The sound of sprinklers woke me up this morning and while I tried to pretend that it was a white noise that I could sleep through, I was mostly fooling myself. Which is to say that I wasn&#8217;t &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/05\/the-sound-of-sprinklers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The sound of sprinklers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":539,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions\/539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}