{"id":9686,"date":"2020-04-17T12:43:48","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T16:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/?p=9686"},"modified":"2020-04-17T12:43:48","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T16:43:48","slug":"article-why-boredom-affects-us-so-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/2020\/04\/17\/article-why-boredom-affects-us-so-much\/","title":{"rendered":"Article: Why Boredom Affects Us So Much"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Why Boredom Affects Us So Much\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span>If being isolated at home is starting to feel like your own personal prison, it\u2019s because tedium is also used as a severe form of carceral punishment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Professor Saida Grundy<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/culture\/archive\/2020\/04\/why-boredom-affects-us-so-much\/610114\/\">Read the article on The Atlantic.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Boredom Affects Us So Much\u00a0 If being isolated at home is starting to feel like your own personal prison, it\u2019s because tedium is also used as a severe form of carceral punishment. By Professor Saida Grundy Read the article on The Atlantic.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3592,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9686"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3592"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9686"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9691,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9686\/revisions\/9691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}