{"id":2540,"date":"2013-05-21T10:55:31","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T14:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.journal.sunira.net\/?p=2540"},"modified":"2013-05-21T10:55:31","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T14:55:31","slug":"its-all-in-your-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.journal.sunira.net\/?p=2540","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s All In Your Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.journal.sunira.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/archives-01.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2541\" alt=\"archives-01\" src=\"http:\/\/www.journal.sunira.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/archives-01.png\" width=\"256\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.journal.sunira.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/archives-01.png 256w, http:\/\/www.journal.sunira.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/archives-01-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/a>Books. Books. Books.<br \/>\nI have been immersing myself in the act of reading for pleasure again. When I think about it, and I mean really think about it, I haven&#8217;t taken my time with books. Since middle school, I only read books quickly. When Harry Potter came out, I would get each book and read it in one night. This is true of most books. I am naturally impatient and I will sacrifice sleep, chores, work and food to satiate my need to come to a satisfactory conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>Things have changed though. I bought a Kindle Paperwhite, which allows me to read at night. So now, pretty much every night I wind up reading for about an hour before going to sleep. I&#8217;ve forced myself to stop at the beginning of a chapter and leave the book for the following night. I can do it!<\/p>\n<p>I just finished reading Ready Player One and I am about to start Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg.<br \/>\nReady Player One was awesome. I haven&#8217;t immersed myself into a world like that since Harry Potter, actually. Maybe Hunger Games kind of comes close but Ready Player One really pulled me in. Apparently there&#8217;s going to be a Ready Player Two, and I will be first in line for that book!<\/p>\n<p>A side effect of reading regularly again is that my vocabulary has expanded and my diction has improved. I am able to express myself more easily and effectively. I&#8217;m glad I picked reading back up. For a while there I thought I was getting stupider because I couldn&#8217;t say what I meant succinctly. It&#8217;s getting better!<\/p>\n<p>Love. Books. &lt;3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Books. Books. Books. I have been immersing myself in the act of reading for pleasure again. When I think about it, and I mean really think about it, I haven&#8217;t taken my time with books. Since middle school, I only read books quickly. When Harry Potter came out, I would get each book and read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.journal.sunira.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.journal.sunira.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.journal.sunira.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.journal.sunira.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.journal.sunira.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2540"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.journal.sunira.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2543,"href":"http:\/\/www.journal.sunira.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540\/revisions\/2543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.journal.sunira.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.journal.sunira.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.journal.sunira.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}