{"id":2460,"date":"2011-12-23T12:30:01","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T16:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mathgradblog.williams.edu\/?p=2460"},"modified":"2011-12-23T12:30:01","modified_gmt":"2011-12-23T16:30:01","slug":"break-motivation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/2011\/12\/23\/break-motivation\/","title":{"rendered":"Break Motivation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hope everyone&#8217;s semester has rounded up nicely. Now, it is time for a break. However, does that really mean we have time to just relax and take time to ourselves? I have been home visiting my parents for Christmas. Before I arrived, I told myself I would be super productive and get some extra reading done. Unfortunately, since I have arrived, I have not done anything productive.<\/p>\n<p>I know I have this long list of tasks, but I just cannot seem to get myself to focus. Is anyone else having this difficulty? How are you convincing yourself you have to do work?<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope everyone&#8217;s semester has rounded up nicely. Now, it is time for a break. However, does that really mean we have time to just relax and take time to ourselves? I have been home visiting my parents for Christmas. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/2011\/12\/23\/break-motivation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" data-url=https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/2011\/12\/23\/break-motivation\/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3gbww-DG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}