{"id":10896,"date":"2019-11-01T09:24:52","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T16:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/?p=10896"},"modified":"2026-04-20T09:50:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T16:50:00","slug":"town-hall-seattle-event-reclaiming-our-attention-in-an-age-of-distraction-friday-nov-1st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/2019\/11\/town-hall-seattle-event-reclaiming-our-attention-in-an-age-of-distraction-friday-nov-1st\/","title":{"rendered":"Town Hall Seattle event: Reclaiming Our Attention in an Age of Distraction, Friday, Nov. 1st"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019re invited to join the UW Communication Leadership Program for a special event on \u201cReclaiming Our Attention in an Age of Distraction\u201d at Town Hall Seattle on <strong>November 1st at 7:30 pm!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our guest is author and artist Jenny Odell, whose book,\u00a0<em>How to do Nothing, Resisting the Attention Economy<\/em>, discusses how <strong>digital media <\/strong>impacts how we structure our everyday lives. She will be in conversation with Comm Lead alumni, political reporter, Austin Jenkins. <strong>Tickets are FREE for students under 22!<\/strong> <strong>RSVP Today! <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/baswnews\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/How-to-do-nothing.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15411\" src=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/baswnews\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/How-to-do-nothing.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"472\" height=\"236\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019re invited to join the UW Communication Leadership Program for a special event on \u201cReclaiming Our Attention in an Age of Distraction\u201d at Town Hall Seattle on November 1st at 7:30 pm! Our guest is author and artist Jenny Odell, whose book,\u00a0How to do Nothing, Resisting the Attention Economy, discusses how digital media impacts how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10896"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17423,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10896\/revisions\/17423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}