{"id":681,"date":"2016-08-09T20:15:35","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T20:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.craftypuzzles.com\/blog\/?p=681"},"modified":"2016-08-09T20:15:35","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T20:15:35","slug":"read-something-new-stimulate-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.craftypuzzles.com\/blog\/read-something-new-stimulate-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"Read Something New to Stimulate your #Brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The human #mind thrives on new experiences.<\/h1>\n<p>Without these our brains get bored and lazy and generally underused. One way to introduce novelty into your life is to read something that isn&#8217;t your normal choice. Pick up a magazine that you have never read, or look through a section of the newspaper that you normally skip. Go to a library and pick a random book from a random shelf.\u00a0 Can you remember that time when you sat in a waiting room, and picked up a magizine to pass the time?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\"  class=\"size-full wp-image-691 aligncenter\" src=\"data:image\/gif,GIF89a%01%00%01%00%80%00%00%00%00%00%FF%FF%FF%21%F9%04%01%00%00%00%00%2C%00%00%00%00%01%00%01%00%00%02%01D%00%3B\" data-layzr=\"http:\/\/www.craftypuzzles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/waiting_room_magazine.jpg\" alt=\"waiting_room_magazine\" width=\"427\" height=\"267\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is a great way to learn new and interesting things. You never know when you might discover a new interest or learn something that relates to something that you are currently working on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The human #mind thrives on new experiences. Without these our brains get bored and lazy and generally underused. One way to introduce novelty into your life is to read something that isn&#8217;t your normal choice. Pick up a magazine that you have never read, or look through a section of the newspaper that you normally skip. Go to a library and pick a random book from a random shelf.\u00a0 Can you remember that time when you sat in a waiting room, and picked up a magizine to pass the time? This is a great way to learn new and interesting <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brainteasers","tag-mind","has_thumb"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craftypuzzles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craftypuzzles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craftypuzzles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craftypuzzles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craftypuzzles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.craftypuzzles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":693,"href":"http:\/\/www.craftypuzzles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions\/693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craftypuzzles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craftypuzzles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craftypuzzles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craftypuzzles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}