{"id":2295,"date":"2008-03-27T17:26:27","date_gmt":"2008-03-28T01:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2008\/03\/27\/this-is-news\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:37:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:37:30","slug":"this-is-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2008\/03\/27\/this-is-news\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is News?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Compassion can be learned in much the same way as playing a musical instrument or being proficient in a sport, U.S. researchers said. <\/p>\n<p>Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that brain circuits used to detect emotions and feelings were dramatically changed in subjects who had extensive experience practicing compassion meditation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;United Press International, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/NewsTrack\/Health\/2008\/03\/27\/study_compassion_can_be_learned\/6736\/\">Study: Compassion can be learned<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article is short; for more details, click the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Compassion can be learned in much the same way as playing a musical instrument or being proficient in a sport, U.S. researchers said. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that brain circuits used to detect emotions and feelings were dramatically changed in subjects who had extensive experience practicing compassion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,16,3,31,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanities","category-nature","category-science","category-social-science","category-technology"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12128,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295\/revisions\/12128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}