{"id":28807,"date":"2024-12-20T04:18:50","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T04:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/20\/in-the-spirit-of-both-zen-and-christmas-holidays-ive-decided-to-become-a-digital-dropout-van-badham\/"},"modified":"2024-12-20T04:18:50","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T04:18:50","slug":"in-the-spirit-of-both-zen-and-christmas-holidays-ive-decided-to-become-a-digital-dropout-van-badham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/20\/in-the-spirit-of-both-zen-and-christmas-holidays-ive-decided-to-become-a-digital-dropout-van-badham\/","title":{"rendered":"In the spirit of both Zen and Christmas holidays, I\u2019ve decided to become a digital dropout | Van Badham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year I am adapting my own rituals \u2013 and with them, hopefully, the landscape of my brain &#8211; as the ultimate gift to myself<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the last fortnight of December, time to reappraise the traditions of shared holiday rituals.<\/p>\n<p>Will Australians once more create kitchen-bound El Ni\u00f1o microclimates in their sweltering devotion to a Christmas turkey, or go with the smelly, if pleasurable, coolness of a prawns-on-ice buffet? Do we pretend to love a handmade noodle necklace more than receipt of an electronic lump of plastic we\u2019ve been coveting all year? Should we indulge anti-vax, flat-earther Uncle Awful spouting theses of YouTubology at the dining table or scream \u201cnot this year, Satan\u201d and instead book a package to Bali?<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2024\/dec\/20\/in-the-spirit-of-both-zen-and-christmas-holidays-ive-decided-to-become-a-digital-dropout\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year I am adapting my own rituals \u2013 and with them, hopefully, the landscape of my brain &#8211; as the ultimate gift to myself It\u2019s the last fortnight of December, time to reappraise the traditions of shared holiday rituals. Will Australians once more create kitchen-bound El Ni\u00f1o microclimates in their sweltering devotion to a &#8230; <a title=\"In the spirit of both Zen and Christmas holidays, I\u2019ve decided to become a digital dropout | Van Badham\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/20\/in-the-spirit-of-both-zen-and-christmas-holidays-ive-decided-to-become-a-digital-dropout-van-badham\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about In the spirit of both Zen and Christmas holidays, I\u2019ve decided to become a digital dropout | Van Badham\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}