{"id":5007,"date":"2020-10-07T07:42:30","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T02:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/?p=5007"},"modified":"2020-10-07T07:42:30","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T02:12:30","slug":"busy-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/07\/busy-3\/","title":{"rendered":"busy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Being busy seems to be the new norm. It gets us a bragging right. The treadmill crafted by a few wants us to feel great about being busy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are busy, still, nothing gets done on time. We are busy to miss the son&#8217;s first recital or daughter&#8217;s participation at a speech competition. We are busy and hence skip meeting ailing parents for months and mourn their death throughout our lifetime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What have we done to ourselves? Are we a human or machine doing our part in the grand scheme of Capitalism? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have stopped living idle or lazy. I wonder what Mozart, Van Gogh would have said about our current generation, seeing us all hooked to the gadgets or remote meetings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WWyV_GaH7K0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being busy seems to be the new norm. It gets us a bragging right. The treadmill crafted by a few wants us to feel great about being busy. We are busy, still, nothing gets done on time. We are busy to miss the son&#8217;s first recital or daughter&#8217;s participation at a speech competition. We are &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/07\/busy-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;busy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,3],"tags":[485],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5007"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5008,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5007\/revisions\/5008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atuljha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}