{"id":2102,"date":"2013-01-24T11:00:35","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T11:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.idenk.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2102"},"modified":"2013-01-13T06:36:58","modified_gmt":"2013-01-13T06:36:58","slug":"time-for-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/time-for-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Time for time?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know we like thinking about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idenk.co.uk\/pp\/ \">\u2018personal productivity\u2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As part of our sort of series of things inspired by reading some of Jeanette Winterson\u2019s work, we think it is worth emphasising that PP (personal productivity) is not an end in itself, but a means to enabling us to achieve other things with our lives.<\/p>\n<p>By getting linear time sorted, we can create what we call soul and self time (and what Winterson calls real time). This is time for hobbies, reflection, ritual\u2026Time when you can be \u2018off grid\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>In \u2018Why be happy when you can be normal\u2019: \u201cI like it that pre-industrial societies, and religious cultures still, now, distinguish between two kinds of time \u2013 linear time, that is also cyclical because history repeats itself, even as it seems to progress, and real time, which is not subject to the clock or the calendar, and is where the soul used to live. This real time is reversible and redeemable. It is why, in religious rites of all kinds, something that happened once is re-enacted \u2013 Passover, Christmas, Easter, or, in the pagan record, Midsummer and the dying of the god. As we participate in the ritual, we step outside of linear&#8230;\u201d\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/commonquote.com\/author\/519\/jeanette-winterson\" rel=\"nofollow\">See this <\/a>and others here.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know we like thinking about \u2018personal productivity\u2019. As part of our sort of series of things inspired by reading some of Jeanette Winterson\u2019s work, we think it is worth emphasising that PP (personal productivity) is not an end in itself, but a means to enabling us to achieve other things with our lives. By [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[128],"tags":[152],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2102"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2150,"href":"https:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102\/revisions\/2150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idenk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}