{"id":48,"date":"2007-12-13T23:21:44","date_gmt":"2007-12-14T06:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/xsml\/archives\/48"},"modified":"2007-12-13T23:21:44","modified_gmt":"2007-12-14T06:21:44","slug":"quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2007\/12\/13\/quotes\/","title":{"rendered":"quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two unrelated quotes. Both are interesting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/livescience\/20071212\/sc_livescience\/whytimeseemstoslowdowninemergencies;_ylt=ArJEN_EB7lN6YRJnz38BWuDQOrgF\">One<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When a person is scared, a brain area called the amygdala becomes more active, laying down an extra set of memories that go along with those normally taken care of by other parts of the brain.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In this way, frightening events are associated with richer and denser memories,&#8221; Eagleman explained. &#8220;And the more memory you have of an event, the longer you believe it took.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Eagleman added this illusion &#8220;is related to the phenomenon that time seems to speed up as you grow older. When you&#8217;re a child, you lay down rich memories for all your experiences; when you&#8217;re older, you&#8217;ve seen it all before and lay down fewer memories. Therefore, when a child looks back at the end of a summer, it seems to have lasted forever; adults think it zoomed by.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americablog.com\/2007\/12\/democrats-who-refuse-to-lead.html\">Two<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To a Democrat, if you get a blurb in the Washington Post, one day, that&#8217;s a public relations victory. To a Republican, once that blurb is repeated every day for 30 years then they declare victory.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two unrelated quotes. Both are interesting. One: When a person is scared, a brain area called the amygdala becomes more active, laying down an extra set of memories that go along with those normally taken care of by other parts of the brain. &#8220;In this way, frightening events are associated with richer and denser memories,&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}