{"id":834,"date":"2007-04-03T20:47:34","date_gmt":"2007-04-04T01:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=834"},"modified":"2007-04-03T21:20:03","modified_gmt":"2007-04-04T02:20:03","slug":"oblivious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=834","title":{"rendered":"Oblivious"},"content":{"rendered":"

Carol and I were sitting across from each other at the kitchen table. She was working on her book and listening to National Public Radio. I was reading the New York Times Book Review<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Carol laughed and said something.<\/p>\n

“What?” I said distractedly, and kept on reading.<\/p>\n

She repeated what she had said. It still didn’t register with me. I think it had to do with something she had heard on the radio.<\/p>\n

Finally I looked up. “Uhn,” I said.<\/p>\n

It’s not that I was intentionally ignoring Carol, it’s just that when I am reading I practically go into a trance state, and I am not particularly aware of the world around me.<\/p>\n

Carol knows this, and politely ignored the fact that I had ignored her. She settled back into her writing, and I settled back into my reading.<\/p>\n

Sometimes I become so oblivious of the world around me that I amaze myself. What I lack in mindfulness, I make up for in power of concentration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Carol and I were sitting across from each other at the kitchen table. She was working on her book and listening to National Public Radio. I was reading the New York Times Book Review. Carol laughed and said something. “What?” I said distractedly, and kept on reading. She repeated what she had said. It still […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meditation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}