{"id":7266,"date":"2017-08-21T00:21:58","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T05:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=7266"},"modified":"2017-08-17T15:26:21","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T20:26:21","slug":"how-to-better-concentrate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=7266","title":{"rendered":"HOW CAN I BETTER CONCENTRATE?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Answer: Read poetry!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>From Philip Yancey:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;I find that poetry helps. You can\u2019t zoom through poetry; it forces you to slow down, think, concentrate, relish words and phrases. I now try to begin each day with a selection from George Herbert, Gerard Manley Hopkins, or R. S. Thomas.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The rest is below (HT: Thomas Kidd&#8217;s email letter)<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"kSJ3poDBYQ\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/philipyancey.com\/reading-wars\/\">Reading Wars<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Reading Wars&#8221; &#8212; Philip Yancey\" src=\"https:\/\/philipyancey.com\/reading-wars\/embed\/#?secret=RA0QQL1Onz#?secret=kSJ3poDBYQ\" data-secret=\"kSJ3poDBYQ\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Answer: Read poetry! From Philip Yancey: &#8220;I find that poetry helps. You can\u2019t zoom through poetry; it forces you to slow down, think, concentrate, relish words and phrases. I now try to begin each day with a selection from George Herbert, Gerard Manley Hopkins, or R. S. Thomas.&#8221; The rest is below (HT: Thomas Kidd&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","category-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7266"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7270,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7266\/revisions\/7270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}