{"id":2723,"date":"2009-07-19T00:31:37","date_gmt":"2009-07-19T04:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/?p=2723"},"modified":"2009-07-19T00:31:37","modified_gmt":"2009-07-19T04:31:37","slug":"keeping-the-noggin-limber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/19\/keeping-the-noggin-limber\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping The Noggin Limber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/\">OpenCulture<\/a> has some interesting (and free) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2009\/07\/philosophy_for_beginners.html\">philosophy stuff to listen to<\/a>. I love this kind of stuff, and it transforms time in the car alone from a chore<footnote>It&#8217;s only really a chore if there&#8217;s traffic or if you&#8217;re driving a route you&#8217;ve driven millions of time before&#8211;if there&#8217;s anything novel about it you can always slip into the blue sky mind of the road trip. But with things like the &#8220;coming home&#8221; bit of taking your kid to day care, etc, there&#8217;s a lot of highly repetitive solo driving.<\/footnote> into a chance to stretch your head. That&#8217;s always good.<\/p>\n<p>Back in the early days of my road tripping I used to work my way through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teach12.com\/\">The Teaching Company<\/a>&#8216;s gigantic courses&#8211;the first was t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.teach12.com\/ttcx\/CourseDescLong2.aspx?cid=470\">heir philosophy survey<\/a>. Of course, back then it was all on tape. These days you can fit thousands of hours of this stuff onto something not much larger than a two-dollar coin. And these days there&#8217;s rather of a lot free content<footnote>Of course if your ethics are arranged in certain ways you can also very easily get the non-free stuff for free these days as well.<\/footnote> as well, like the above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">OpenCulture has some interesting (and free) philosophy stuff to listen to. I love this kind of stuff, and it transforms time in the car alone from a choreIt&#8217;s only really a chore if there&#8217;s traffic or if you&#8217;re driving a route you&#8217;ve driven millions of time before&#8211;if there&#8217;s anything novel about it you can always slip into the blue sky&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/19\/keeping-the-noggin-limber\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,238,208,159],"class_list":["post-2723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-storytime","tag-free","tag-philosophy","tag-things-to-listen-to","tag-thinking","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-HV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2728,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2723\/revisions\/2728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}