{"id":1848,"date":"2013-02-28T18:53:27","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T17:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/2013\/02\/28\/chocolate\/"},"modified":"2016-03-08T07:39:56","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T06:39:56","slug":"chocolate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/2013\/02\/28\/chocolate\/","title":{"rendered":"Chocolate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fat-Chance-Beating-Against-Processed\/dp\/159463100X\">an excellent book on junk food<\/a> recently and thought: really, it can&rsquo;t be that bad, right? Yet, the book caused me to cut down on chocolate greatly, and I discovered a pattern. I used to have this habit:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I&rsquo;m hacking on something and I get a bit hungry. I eat a chocolate bar. I&rsquo;m still hungry and my thoughts start to drift away from the work and towards the next chocolate bar.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Things have changed a bit since I stopped eating chocolate bars and drinking soda. Now it&rsquo;s much more like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I&rsquo;m hacking on something and I get a bit hungry. I eat an apple. I continue to work.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And yet, today I strayed from the usual course of things and I ate a huge pack of chocolate chip cookies out of boredom. And you know what?<\/p>\n<p><strong>I simply couldn&rsquo;t focus for the next two fucking hours.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This translates to: no work done for two hours. No rest during the next two hours since I was now <em>terminally bored. And boredom kills all opportunity to get any real rest.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes you have to quit something just to see how much unnoticed harm it causes in your life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read an excellent book on junk food recently and thought: really, it can&rsquo;t be that bad, right? Yet, the book caused me to cut down on chocolate greatly, and I discovered a pattern. I used to have this habit: I&rsquo;m hacking on something and I get a bit hungry. I eat a chocolate bar. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2253,"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848\/revisions\/2253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kosma.pl\/diaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}