{"id":18601,"date":"2013-02-21T11:13:56","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T17:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=18601"},"modified":"2016-05-10T09:11:46","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T15:11:46","slug":"ear-buddied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=18601","title":{"rendered":"Ear Buddied"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imbolc \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Valentine Moon<\/p>\n<p>Found the Ipod shuffle. \u00a0I mentioned it a few posts back. As I finish the last rearranging in the study, I&#8217;m listening to music through earphones. \u00a0Becoming part of the current generation. \u00a0A soundtrack for the activities helps. \u00a0I&#8217;m not sure what I think of the tendency younger folk have to soundtrack their whole life. \u00a0Does it add or detract? \u00a0Don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m listening to it right now and it does demand at least some attention, so I imagine it does distract me from certain trains of thought. \u00a0But. \u00a0Does it stimulate others that I wouldn&#8217;t have had?<\/p>\n<p>My suspicion, though only that now, is that the music is a distraction from contemplation, from moving below the surface of things to a different level. \u00a0I base that notion on the firmly identified limits on multi-tasking. \u00a0Listening is a task. \u00a0On the other hand I think nothing of writing with music coming out of loud speakers. \u00a0In fact I just ordered a new set of speakers for the study so I can do just that.<\/p>\n<p>Does having the earbuds in change the experience? I think it does. \u00a0Makes it more immediate, blocks out the outer world. \u00a0Which I sense is its primary attraction to those rarely seen without the wiry appendages. \u00a0For me, unless I&#8217;m involved in manual, non-intellectual labor, I&#8217;m not sure. \u00a0Gonna experiment for a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imbolc \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Valentine Moon Found the Ipod shuffle. \u00a0I mentioned it a few posts back. As I finish the last rearranging in the study, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=18601\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ear Buddied<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3996],"tags":[4150,4151,4152,512],"class_list":["post-18601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-third-phase-2","tag-ear-buds","tag-ipod-shuffle","tag-multi-tasking","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18601"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39440,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18601\/revisions\/39440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}