{"id":23919,"date":"2021-12-14T18:51:51","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T23:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=23919"},"modified":"2021-12-14T18:51:51","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T23:51:51","slug":"in-the-back-of-your-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=23919","title":{"rendered":"In the back of your mind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes when you get stuck trying to solve a problem, the best thing to do is to put it aside and come back to it later. After a while, you often find that the answer just comes to you.<\/p>\n<p>But what is actually going on here? Is a part of your mind continuing to work on the problem?<\/p>\n<p>And if so, how come you&#8217;re not aware of it? Are there entire regions of your brain which are working away on things that you care about, without bothering to tell you?<\/p>\n<p>Think about it. While you are reading this, do you really know what your brain is actually up to? What sorts of things might it be doing that it&#8217;s not telling you about?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes when you get stuck trying to solve a problem, the best thing to do is to put it aside and come back to it later. After a while, you often find that the answer just comes to you. But what is actually going on here? Is a part of your mind continuing to work &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=23919\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;In the back of your mind&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23919"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23920,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23919\/revisions\/23920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}