{"id":6889,"date":"2012-01-02T17:14:14","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T00:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=6889"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:32:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:32:16","slug":"a-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2012\/01\/02\/a-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook has replaced blogging, it seems. At least for me. What to do with this little outpost on the web? <\/p>\n<p>Happy new year, anyway.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say. Partly because we\u2019re so busy communicating. And \u2014 as he might also have said \u2014 we\u2019re rushing to meet so many deadlines that we hardly register that what we need most are lifelines.<\/p>\n<p>So what to do? The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that they cannot teach us how to make the best use of them; the information revolution came without an instruction manual. All the data in the world cannot teach us how to sift through data; images don\u2019t show us how to process images. The only way to do justice to our onscreen lives is by summoning exactly the emotional and moral clarity that can\u2019t be found on any screen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Pico Iyer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/01\/01\/opinion\/sunday\/the-joy-of-quiet.html?_r=1&#038;ref=general&#038;src=me&#038;pagewanted=all\">The Joy of Quiet<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook has replaced blogging, it seems. At least for me. What to do with this little outpost on the web? Happy new year, anyway. We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say. Partly because we\u2019re so busy communicating. And \u2014 as he might also have said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,31,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-social-science","category-technology"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6889","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=6889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6890,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6889\/revisions\/6890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}