{"id":31988,"date":"2014-07-21T09:00:38","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T13:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.pro\/?p=31988"},"modified":"2014-07-07T14:19:41","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T18:19:41","slug":"uncommon-knowledge-july-boring-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/2014\/uncommon-knowledge-july-boring-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Knowledge: Why is July the least boring month?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/pallina-dropping-ball-game?source=blog\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/18297_zoom1-548x646.jpg\" alt=\"Pallina Dropping Ball Game | UncommonGoods\" width=\"548\" height=\"646\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-31990\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/18297_zoom1-548x646.jpg 548w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/18297_zoom1-300x353.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/18297_zoom1.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\" \/><\/a>Among his many epigrams, Arts &#038; Crafts guru Elbert Hubbard declared, \u201cboredom is a matter of choice, not circumstance.\u201d It seems that the Boring Institute couldn\u2019t agree more, designating July as \u201cNational Anti-Boredom Month.\u201d Writer Alan Caruba founded the Institute in 1984 as a media spoof of the Macy\u2019s Thanksgiving Day parade; his mock press release claimed that they were running ten-year-old footage of the parade on TV to explain what he saw as an exceedingly boring and repetitive annual event. Despite its Thanksgiving associations, the Boring Institute\u2019s month of Anti-boredom events and observations serves as an antidote to the summertime blues\u2014when many kids, free from the structure of the school year, try their caregivers\u2019 patience and creativity with cries of \u201cthere\u2019s nothing to do!\u201d Since its satirical beginnings, the Boring Institute has shifted focus to issues of \u201cself-awareness\u201d to combat depression and related self-destructive behaviors. So, for Caruba, boredom can be a serious business, but fighting boredom for families over the summer relies on the thoughtful cultivation of a <a href=\"http:\/\/info.alertsolutions.com\/bid\/100494\/July-is-National-Anti-Boredom-Month-What-Have-You-Done-to-Stay-Busy\" target=\"_blank\">fun, anti-boredom mission<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/pallina-dropping-ball-game?source=blog\" target=\"_blank\">Pallina Dropping Ball Game, $37<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBoredom is a matter of choice, not circumstance.\u201d -Elbert Hubbard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":31989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[813],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31988"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}