{"id":1289,"date":"2015-02-15T15:16:29","date_gmt":"2015-02-15T20:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/?p=1289"},"modified":"2015-02-15T15:16:29","modified_gmt":"2015-02-15T20:16:29","slug":"sunday-motivation-let-your-mind-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/2015\/02\/15\/sunday-motivation-let-your-mind-listen\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Motivation: Let Your Mind Listen"},"content":{"rendered":"<script>fsg_json['fsg_post_1289'] = [\n{id: 1291, image: 'http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2015\/02\/adsmith.jpg', extlink: '', thumb: 'https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2015\/02\/adsmith-290x290.jpg', permalink: '<div class=\"galleria-layeritem\"><a title=\"Permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/2015\/02\/15\/sunday-motivation-let-your-mind-listen\/adsmith\/#0\"><div class=\"galleria-link-bookmark\"><\/div><\/a><\/div>', layer: '<div class=\"galleria-infolayer\"><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\" style=\"padding-right: 20px;\"><h1>Anna Deavere Smith<\/h1><\/div><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\"><a title=\"Permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/2015\/02\/15\/sunday-motivation-let-your-mind-listen\/adsmith\/#0\"><div class=\"galleria-link-bookmark\"><\/div><\/a><\/div><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\" style=\"padding-right: 20px;\"><\/div>'}\n];<\/script>\n<div id=\"attachment_1291\" style=\"width: 253px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a data-postid=\"fsg_post_1289\" data-imgid=\"1291\" href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2015\/02\/adsmith.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1291\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1291\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2015\/02\/adsmith-243x300.jpg\" alt=\"Credit: Brain Pickings\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2015\/02\/adsmith-243x300.jpg 243w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2015\/02\/adsmith.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1291\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credit: Brain Pickings<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Chances are good that the last half of Sunday will have you scrambling with your mind not just talking to you about everything that&#8217;s coming up this week, but perhaps even screaming with tasks that need to be completed. In today&#8217;s Sunday Motivation, give your mind a rest. Try listening instead. Playwright Anna Deavere Smith&#8217;s work is all about <a title=\"ADS Art of Listening\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/2015\/01\/29\/anna-deavere-smith-talk-to-me\/?mc_cid=62a64daceb&amp;mc_eid=a1948f1469\" target=\"_blank\">the art of listening in a culture of speaking.<\/a> Dive in and spend some time listening to her insights, allowing yourself to absorb through reading without having to immediately speak back what you&#8217;ve read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chances are good that the last half of Sunday will have you scrambling with your mind not just talking to you about everything that&#8217;s coming up this week, but perhaps <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/2015\/02\/15\/sunday-motivation-let-your-mind-listen\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"sr-only\">Read more about Sunday Motivation: Let Your Mind Listen<\/span>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4549,"featured_media":1291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[68818,241],"class_list":["post-1289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-creative-writing","tag-performance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4549"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1289"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1292,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289\/revisions\/1292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}