{"id":1133,"date":"2008-06-11T15:32:24","date_gmt":"2008-06-11T21:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/?p=1133"},"modified":"2008-06-11T15:32:24","modified_gmt":"2008-06-11T21:32:24","slug":"the_scatterbrai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=1133","title":{"rendered":"The scatterbrained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the few days since my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/doc\/200807\/google\">essay<\/a> on the Internet&#8217;s effects on cognition appeared in The Atlantic, I&#8217;ve been flooded with emails and blog posts from people saying that my struggles with deep reading and concentration mirror their own experiences. &#8220;I found the first couple of pages almost eerie in how well they described my own feelings,&#8221; wrote a typical correspondent today. Uber-blogger Andrew Sullivan said in a <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2008\/06\/is-google-makin.html\">post<\/a> a short while ago that my story &#8220;strikes close to home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I feel an odd mix of emotions. I&#8217;m of course gratified to see further evidence confirming my hypothesis, but it&#8217;s a melancholy sense of gratification since the hypothesis is (to me, anyway) such an unhappy one. There should be a word to describe the feeling of finding support for one&#8217;s gloomy idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the few days since my essay on the Internet&#8217;s effects on cognition appeared in The Atlantic, I&#8217;ve been flooded with emails and blog posts from people saying that my struggles with deep reading and concentration mirror their own experiences. &#8220;I found the first couple of pages almost eerie in how well they described my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}