{"id":1488,"date":"2017-01-05T08:00:33","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T08:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/blog\/?p=1488"},"modified":"2017-12-31T16:02:16","modified_gmt":"2017-12-31T16:02:16","slug":"a-skeptic-meditates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/a-skeptic-meditates\/","title":{"rendered":"A Skeptic Meditates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1490 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/AdobeStock_114650051_Credit-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"AdobeStock_114650051_Credit\" width=\"377\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/AdobeStock_114650051_Credit-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/AdobeStock_114650051_Credit-1024x684.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 377px) 100vw, 377px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Scott Barry Kaufman <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/beautiful-minds\/my-mindfulness-journey\/?wt.mc=SA_Twitter-Share\" target=\"_blank\">meditates<\/a>\u00a0&#8212; rebelliously &#8212; for eight weeks, and learns a lot about himself, mindfulness, anxiety, and creativity&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(One of his provocative conclusions: &#8220;Mindfulness is not the opposite of mind-wandering&#8230;&#8221;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Barry Kaufman meditates\u00a0&#8212; rebelliously &#8212; for eight weeks, and learns a lot about himself, mindfulness, anxiety, and creativity&#8230; (One of his provocative conclusions: &#8220;Mindfulness is not the opposite of mind-wandering&#8230;&#8221;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":1490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,19],"class_list":["post-1488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lb-blog","tag-mindfulness","tag-skepticism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1488"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1567,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions\/1567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}