{"id":275,"date":"2008-02-18T08:35:16","date_gmt":"2008-02-18T14:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/me-and-my-house.org\/blog-led\/2008\/02\/18\/a-mind-is-a-terrible-thing-to-waste\/"},"modified":"2013-03-27T19:05:06","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T01:05:06","slug":"a-mind-is-a-terrible-thing-to-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-led\/a-mind-is-a-terrible-thing-to-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thinking seems to be a lost art. (Hmm, have I posted on this before?) Is it just because people are lazy and don&#8217;t have to think? Or have they truly lost abilities to think?<\/p>\n<p>I read this book many years ago, (I notice this one has a new cover.) It gives plenty of food for thought on why we aren&#8217;t thinking! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"3\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianbook.com\/Christian\/Books\/product?event=AFF&amp;p=1020434&amp;item_no=65204\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"65204: Endangered Minds\" alt=\"65204: Endangered Minds\" src=\"http:\/\/ag.christianbook.com\/g\/tiny\/6\/65204.gif\" width=\"70\" height=\"70\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"hspace\" vspace=\"vspace\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianbook.com\/Christian\/Books\/product?event=AFF&amp;p=1020434&amp;item_no=65204\">Endangered Minds<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nBy Jane Healy \/ Simon &amp; Schuster Trade Sales<!-- Endangered Minds  0684856204 65204 HEALY Jane Healy -->Ever stop to wonder <em>why<\/em> children can&#8217;t concentrate like they used to . . . or why record numbers of today&#8217;s kids are being diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder? Dr. Healy blends scientific knowledge with professional insight and common sense as she examines how contemporary practices (especially TV-watching) can affect children&#8217;s brain development. 384 pages, softcover from Simon &amp; Schuster.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thinking seems to be a lost art. (Hmm, have I posted on this before?) Is it just because people are lazy and don&#8217;t have to think? Or have they truly lost abilities to think? I read this book many years ago, (I notice this one has a new cover.) It \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-led\/a-mind-is-a-terrible-thing-to-waste\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resourcelinks","category-misc-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-led\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-led\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-led\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-led\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-led\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-led\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1770,"href":"https:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-led\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions\/1770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-led\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-led\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/blog-led\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}