{"id":3941,"date":"2007-07-19T21:22:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-19T21:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eaumaison.wordpress.com\/2007\/07\/19\/tick-tick-tick"},"modified":"2007-07-19T21:22:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-19T21:22:00","slug":"tick-tick-tick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/2007\/07\/19\/tick-tick-tick\/","title":{"rendered":"tick tick tick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How did people procrastinate before the internet?  Seriously, WHAT did they do? And I think the way I use the term procrastination has shrunk.  It used to mean putting off a term paper for days or weeks until the deadline.  Now it means minutes or hours.  <\/p>\n<p>Ok, lecture ended at 3, I have roughly 1 &#8211; 1 1\/2 hours before I meet Ben for dinner, then go to my 5:30 lecture.  That&#8217;s plenty of time to work on my Mumps virus term paper.  <\/p>\n<p>Plan = check emails, start typing report.<br \/>hmmm &#8230;<br \/>now plan = check emails, chat with Ben, start typing report<br \/>hmmm &#8230;<br \/>now plan = check emails, chat with Ben, click links on emails, start typing report<br \/>hmmm &#8230;<br \/>now plan = check emails, chat with Ben, click links on emails, check favorite rss feeds, start typing report<br \/>hmmm &#8230;<br \/>now plan = check emails, chat with Ben, click links on emails, check favorite rss feeds, check all feeds, start typing report<br \/>hmmm &#8230;<br \/>now plan = check emails, chat with Ben, click links on emails, check favorite rss feeds, check all feeds, find cool flash game, read snarky posts, ogle textiles, post on blog<\/p>\n<p>And suddenly 30 minutes are gone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How did people procrastinate before the internet? Seriously, WHAT did they do? And I think the way I use the term procrastination has shrunk. It used to mean putting off a term paper for days or weeks until the deadline. Now it means minutes or hours. Ok, lecture ended at 3, I have roughly 1 [&hellip;]<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eaumaison.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}