{"id":7145,"date":"2010-09-06T00:00:29","date_gmt":"2010-09-05T22:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=7145"},"modified":"2010-09-05T22:44:37","modified_gmt":"2010-09-05T20:44:37","slug":"how-to-be-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2010\/09\/how-to-be-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Be Alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>What can we learn about ourselves when we let go of our fear of loneliness? <\/em><\/p>\n<p>In this fun, quirky video, filmmaker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andreadorfman.com\/\"  target=\"_blank\">Andrea Dorfman<\/a> and poet\/singer\/songwriter <a href=\"http:\/\/tanyadavis.ca\/index.html\/\"  target=\"_blank\">Tanya Davis<\/a> use poetry, art, and music to offer advice for tackling one of society\u2019s biggest fears: alone time.<\/p>\n<p>Tanya shows us how to ease into loneliness\u2014starting in easy places like the bathroom or coffee shop, turning off our cell phone security blankets, honoring the things we like to do by ourselves\u2014as we learn to enjoy it and feed ourselves with it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/08\/25\/technology\/25brain.html?_r=1&amp;emc=eta1\/\"  target=\"_blank\">Recent studies<\/a> show that our brains need downtime, away from computers and other digital devices, to spur creativity and productivity. Check out the video&#8230;then unplug and reap the rewards of solitude!<\/p>\n<p>Film produced by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bravofact.com\/\"  target=\"_blank\">Bravo!FACT<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=k7X7sZzSXYs&amp;feature=player_embedded<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What can we learn about ourselves when we let go of our fear of loneliness? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-video-clips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}