{"id":23301,"date":"2012-06-30T15:19:15","date_gmt":"2012-06-30T15:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/idleness-is-not-just-a-vacation-an-indulgence-or\/"},"modified":"2012-06-30T15:19:15","modified_gmt":"2012-06-30T15:19:15","slug":"idleness-is-not-just-a-vacation-an-indulgence-or","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/idleness-is-not-just-a-vacation-an-indulgence-or\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Idleness is not just a vacation, an indulgence or a vice; it is as indispensable to the brain as vitamin D is to the body, and deprived of it we suffer a mental affliction as disfiguring as rickets. The space and quiet that idleness provides is a necessary condition for standing back from life and seeing it whole, for making unexpected connections and waiting for the wild summer lightning strikes of inspiration \u2014 it is, paradoxically, necessary to getting any work done. \u201cIdle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do,\u201d wrote Thomas Pynchon in his essay on sloth. Archimedes\u2019 \u201cEureka\u201d in the bath, Newton\u2019s apple, Jekyll &amp; Hyde and the benzene ring: history is full of stories of inspirations that come in idle moments and dreams. It almost makes you wonder whether loafers, goldbricks and no-accounts aren\u2019t responsible for more of the world\u2019s great ideas, inventions and masterpieces than the hardworking.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'> Tim Krieder,\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2012\/06\/30\/the-busy-trap\/\">The \u2018Busy\u2019 Trap<\/a> via NYTimes.com (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.underpaidgenius.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">underpaidgenius<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Idleness is not just a vacation, an indulgence or a vice; it is as indispensable to the brain as vitamin D is to the body, and deprived of it we suffer a mental affliction as disfiguring as rickets. The space and quiet that idleness provides is a necessary condition for standing back from life and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[696,695],"class_list":["post-23301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","tag-ant","tag-grasshopper","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-63P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}