{"id":201,"date":"2013-02-22T16:46:39","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T16:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=201"},"modified":"2013-02-22T16:46:39","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T16:46:39","slug":"the-nothing-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=201","title":{"rendered":"The Nothing Zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I mentioned that one trait (I like to refer to them as talents or gifts) that I have is selective listening. Another talent of mine (probably one of many) that seems to puzzle Claire on occasion is my ability to completely shut off my mental faculties and think about absolutely nothing. She&#8217;ll ask, &#8220;So whatcha thinking about?&#8221; And I say, &#8220;nothing.&#8221; She says, &#8220;nothing??&#8221; like it&#8217;s hard to believe I can think about <em>nothing<\/em>. I seriously doubt that Claire could think about nothing \u2014 even if she tried. I think this may be a safety mechanism, like selective listening. If my brain is strained too much, it goes into a sort of protective mode. After the crisis or strain has passed, it just reboots. The danger of being in protective mode or the nothing zone is that that you have to avoid a complete system shutdown. Claire is pretty good at getting me out of protective mode, and avoiding any system shutdown \u2014 often just the suggestion of a drink or ice cream will do it. She seems to have the knack and knows how to get me out of the zone. How could you not love someone like that?<br \/>\n\u201430\u2014<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I mentioned that one trait (I like to refer to them as talents or gifts) that I have is selective listening. Another talent of mine (probably one of many) that seems to puzzle Claire on occasion is my ability &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/?p=201\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions\/202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jimmy.ekota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}