{"id":2583,"date":"2008-07-28T07:14:54","date_gmt":"2008-07-28T14:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=2583"},"modified":"2026-01-31T20:29:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T04:29:04","slug":"brain-food-and-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2008\/07\/28\/brain-food-and-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"Brain Food And Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In between shopping for a new car seat, providing the usual care for Bean, doing laundry, buying groceries, vacuuming and mopping, watering outdoor plants, and making lemon buttermilk pies for a potluck, I&#8217;ve been squeezing in another book. The library books are momentarily set aside so I can complete a book I started months ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Oil-Upton-Sinclair\/dp\/0143112260\">Oil!<\/a> by Upton Sinclair. I am now fascinated by the story (as relevant today as it was at first publication in 1927) and the history lesson embedded in the plot. The reason I had put it aside was that Sinclair uses two devices I found intrusive to my attention &#8212; the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Point_of_view_(literature)\">second person point of view<\/a> and a liberal application of exclamation points. The story finally drew me in enough that I was able to let go of the distractions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In between shopping for a new car seat, providing the usual care for Bean, doing laundry, buying groceries, vacuuming and mopping, watering outdoor plants, and making lemon buttermilk pies for a potluck, I&#8217;ve been squeezing in another book. The library books are momentarily set aside so I can complete a book I started months ago, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,27,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanities","category-recreation","category-regional"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2583","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=2583"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13734,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2583\/revisions\/13734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}