{"id":1447,"date":"2010-03-11T21:53:44","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T02:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/?p=1447"},"modified":"2010-03-11T21:53:44","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T02:53:44","slug":"a-week-without-news-the-aftermath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/a-week-without-news-the-aftermath\/","title":{"rendered":"A Week Without News – The Aftermath"},"content":{"rendered":"

For those people keeping score, on Monday I posted something saying I was going a week without news<\/a>, but I had started it last Friday. That means that in a couple of hours my self imposed ban will be over.<\/p>\n

It's been an interesting week, I must say. I haven't watched the news nor visited an online news site to scan any news headlines. I did do what I said I would, that being to follow some links to stories that caught my eye while on Twitter, and of course a couple that hit my email from news alerts. I wasn't totally out of the loop, but I know I missed a bunch of things.<\/p>\n

What I caught was interesting. I caught some of the Oscar winners. I caught that there was another large earthquake in Chile, and a smaller one somewhere else; not sure where. I caught that some little NY representative had resigned, but I haven't fully figured out why yet. I caught that Corey Haim passed away, and that Lindsey Lohan was suing E-trade for something moronic. And I caught that President Obama is still favored by 51% of the populace, while Congress is only favored by 21%; that's a shame.<\/p>\n

I missed a lot, but since I don't know all that I missed I guess it doesn't matter. But I have to say that part of what I expected to occur didn't work out quite as I thought it would. I thought that I'd be better prepared to catch up on all my email. I thought that I'd get more of my projects done. I really thought that without trying to catch the news that I'd concentrate more on other things. <\/p>\n

None of that happened. Turns out that I really do spend an inordinate amount of time researching news items. I found it difficult to write my finance blog without knowing what was going on in the financial world; that's not good. I found that I don't really have all that many other websites that I like to visit that are in my bookmarks, since I'm used to chasing news. I found that I was bored sometimes, and I'd just leave the computer and go into the other room to watch the big screen TV. Yeah, I also worked out a few more times this week, which is always a good thing.<\/p>\n

However, one other thing I realized is that I didn't have certain things in my mind to bother me and get me upset. I don't know if some morons molested some kids, or if some moron decided to kill his family and possibly himself. I don't know what's going on with the health care bill, or anything else Congress might be dealing with. I do know that Glenn Beck said something stupid, and that Rush Limbaugh said he'd leave the country if the health care bill was passed, but I have no idea what prompted either thing. I don't even know what's really going on locally, except there's a building that's still waiting to fall or be pulled down, and no one is doing anything because there's a debate as to who should be pulling it down; that was all before I stopped reading the news.<\/p>\n

It was an interesting experiment; I might do it again some day. But I can't wait until midnight so I can find out what's going on in this world; I'm hoping that maybe I won't care as much, but I doubt it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For those people keeping score, on Monday I posted something saying I was going a week without news, but I had started it last Friday. That means that in a couple of hours my self imposed ban will be over. It’s been an interesting week, I must say. I haven’t watched the news nor visited […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1441,196],"class_list":["post-1447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motivation","tag-motivation","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttmitchellconsulting.com\/Mitchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}