{"id":1427,"date":"2020-08-10T16:46:48","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T23:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scot.fun\/damentals\/?p=1427"},"modified":"2020-08-10T16:46:52","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T23:46:52","slug":"entertainment-is-a-waist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scot.fun\/damentals\/entertainment-is-a-waist\/","title":{"rendered":"Entertainment is a waist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"732\" data-attachment-id=\"1429\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.scot.fun\/damentals\/entertainment-is-a-waist\/pexels-jeandaniel-francoeur-3908081\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scot.fun\/damentals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/pexels-jeandaniel-francoeur-3908081.jpg?fit=2000%2C1429&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2000,1429\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"pexels-jeandaniel-francoeur-3908081\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scot.fun\/damentals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/pexels-jeandaniel-francoeur-3908081.jpg?fit=1024%2C732&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scot.fun\/damentals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/pexels-jeandaniel-francoeur-3908081.jpg?resize=1024%2C732&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scot.fun\/damentals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/pexels-jeandaniel-francoeur-3908081.jpg?resize=1024%2C732&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scot.fun\/damentals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/pexels-jeandaniel-francoeur-3908081.jpg?resize=300%2C214&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scot.fun\/damentals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/pexels-jeandaniel-francoeur-3908081.jpg?resize=1536%2C1097&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scot.fun\/damentals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/pexels-jeandaniel-francoeur-3908081.jpg?w=2000&amp;ssl=1 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xM22H9sxoxM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What entertainment people create is ludicrous and nonsensical and amazingly life-giving. The genius of the absurd helps us release all of our self-importance, material-importance,  and time-importance and observe our vulnerability as a connection to all of reality. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It can feel very wasteful to be drawn into a blog post by detecting a typo, for example&#8230; but maybe that was actually the best use of your time at that moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What entertainment people create is ludicrous and nonsensical and amazingly life-giving. The genius of the absurd helps us release all of our self-importance, material-importance, and time-importance and observe our vulnerability as a connection to all of reality. It can feel very wasteful to be drawn into a blog post by detecting a typo, for example&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":1429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10158666434799935_26707174888":"","twitter_aToyMjM4MTQzMDs=_22381430":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pc33gc-n1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1442,"url":"https:\/\/www.scot.fun\/damentals\/fulfillmentertainment\/","url_meta":{"origin":1427,"position":0},"title":"Fulfillmentertainment","author":"scot","date":"August 16, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"I keep talking about fulfillment. 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