{"id":135,"date":"2009-04-30T08:44:08","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T08:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp\/?p=135"},"modified":"2009-04-30T08:44:08","modified_gmt":"2009-04-30T08:44:08","slug":"it_was_the_attention_spans_tha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/2009\/04\/it_was_the_attention_spans_tha\/","title":{"rendered":"It was the attention span that got small&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"small.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/small.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"margin: 0pt 20px 20px 0pt; float: left;\" height=\"208\" width=\"229\" \/><\/span>Okay, I&#8217;m no Sherlock, but I have surmised that the whole &#8220;case of the amazing shrinking modern attention span&#8221; is bunk. Like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Everything-Bad-Good-You-Actually\/dp\/1573223077\">Steven Johnson<\/a>, I am comfortable arguing that contemporary pop culture actually expects more and more of our brain power, not less.<br \/>\nAnd I still basically am, but still: along with this morning&#8217;s coffee, I discovered that there are now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cjkG9vNWKis\">:50 &#8220;official trailers&#8221;<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SDjOvA7ZDbA\">3:19-long songs<\/a>. That&#8217;s what you get, indeed.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, the million and six plot twists of <a href=\"http:\/\/lostpedia.wikia.com\/wiki\/Main_Page\"><i>Lost<\/i><\/a> slap us back the other way. Confusion is the new (substitute for) sophistication? Let us mull over these developments while taking in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2217147\/\"><i>Golden Girls<\/i> marathons<\/a> this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, I&#8217;m no Sherlock, but I have surmised that the whole &#8220;case of the amazing shrinking modern attention span&#8221; is bunk. Like Steven Johnson, I am comfortable arguing that contemporary pop culture actually expects more and more of our brain power, not less. And I still basically am, but still: along with this morning&#8217;s coffee, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-135","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}