{"id":2047,"date":"2014-05-13T16:30:34","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T20:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/?p=2047"},"modified":"2014-05-13T14:31:26","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T18:31:26","slug":"train-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wrote-about\/train-mode\/","title":{"rendered":"Train Mode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every morning I enjoy Train Mode. Each work day, I wait for a bus. Which I take to a train. Where I ride underground for about 35 minutes until I arrive at work. Then I rise zombie-like from beneath the ground and emerge to the light.<\/p>\n<p>Each morning my mind races with all the things I could be, should be, might be doing. And then I don&#8217;t. I do a single thing.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>Catch yourself about to multitask today. Stop, breath, and go back to what your were originally doing.&mdash; Garrick van Buren (@garrickvanburen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/garrickvanburen\/statuses\/466190220891680770\">May 13, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>When I step into a train, my phone becomes an island. I turn off all wireless communications. My phone is adrift in a sea of silence. No email. No social. No interaction.<\/p>\n<p>I open Kindle. I read. I enjoy the blissful silence and focus of words on a page.<\/p>\n<p>This past week I&#8217;ve read with my phone in one hand and a paper notebook in the other. I&#8217;ve written thoughts and pondered questions. I&#8217;ve interacted with the book in a real way.<\/p>\n<p>Not passively reading, but reading to remember. Reading to know. I&#8217;ve ignored the rest of the world and for that short train ride, it&#8217;s just me, the words, and my thoughts. And it gets to happen again at day&#8217;s end. Where I wait for a train. To a bus. To home. All without the phone making a peep. Unless I put on music to drown out the song of public transit.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s blissful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every morning I enjoy Train Mode. Each work day, I wait for a bus. Which I take to a train. Where I ride underground for about 35 minutes until I arrive at work. Then I rise zombie-like from beneath the ground and emerge to the light. Each morning my mind races with all the things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New Post: Train Mode. How I get dedicated reading time five days a week.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[611,609,384,465,612],"class_list":["post-2047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wrote-about","tag-airplane-mode","tag-garrickvanburen","tag-silence","tag-solace","tag-train-mode"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Train-Mode.jpg?fit=768%2C1024&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2047"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2056,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2047\/revisions\/2056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}