{"id":1306,"date":"2009-06-01T14:14:17","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T21:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2009\/06\/pay_attentionor_not\/"},"modified":"2009-06-01T14:14:17","modified_gmt":"2009-06-01T21:14:17","slug":"pay_attentionor_not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/pay_attentionor_not.php","title":{"rendered":"Pay attention&#8230;or not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I seem to be distracted today by thoughts of how I might be less distracted, I thought I&#8217;d share Mr. Merlin Mann&#8217;s thoughts on the subject. A favorite quote, despite its bad grammar:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>People give you money because you know how to solve problems. Not because you move email around and respond to things that go &#8220;DING!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, in honor of Mr. Mann, I suppose I should get back to my productive work.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width:425px;text-align:left\" id=\"__ss_555994\"><a style=\"font:14px Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;display:block;margin:12px 0 3px 0;text-decoration:underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/merlinmann\/who-moved-my-brain-revaluing-time-and-attention-presentation?type=presentation\" title=\"Who Moved My Brain? Revaluing Time and Attention\">Who Moved My Brain? Revaluing Time and Attention<\/a><object style=\"margin:0px\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/static.slidesharecdn.com\/swf\/ssplayer2.swf?doc=mann-who-moved-my-brain-time-attention-20080814-1218773331872917-9&#038;stripped_title=who-moved-my-brain-revaluing-time-and-attention-presentation\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"\/><embed src=\"http:\/\/static.slidesharecdn.com\/swf\/ssplayer2.swf?doc=mann-who-moved-my-brain-time-attention-20080814-1218773331872917-9&#038;stripped_title=who-moved-my-brain-revaluing-time-and-attention-presentation\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:11px;font-family:tahoma,arial;height:26px;padding-top:2px;\">View more <a style=\"text-decoration:underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/\">Microsoft Word documents<\/a> from <a style=\"text-decoration:underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/merlinmann\">merlinmann<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I seem to be distracted today by thoughts of how I might be less distracted, I thought I&#8217;d share Mr. Merlin Mann&#8217;s thoughts on the subject. A favorite quote, despite its bad grammar: People give you money because you know how to solve problems. Not because you move email around and respond to things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1306","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}