{"id":5,"date":"2007-07-29T05:26:09","date_gmt":"2007-07-29T12:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/?p=5"},"modified":"2008-11-09T07:30:57","modified_gmt":"2008-11-09T14:30:57","slug":"juggling-is-good-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/?p=5","title":{"rendered":"Juggling is Good For You"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’ve been in a delicious state of beginner-ness this past week as I’ve been teaching myself how to juggle. I’ve managed to get to the point where I can juggle 6 tosses in a row. After six tosses something happens: my brain freezes up and the entire operation falls apart. Once or twice I’ve done 8 or 9 tosses in a row and was amazed and exhilerated by the figure 8 pattern that I could see in front of my eyes as I forgot my hands and the hard brain work of left-toss, right-toss<\/em>, left-toss, right-toss<\/em> and just moved into the juggling zone — a beautiful Newtonian place where objects and gravity do an arc-shaped dance. Both times that I’ve accomplished 8 or 9 tosses, I’ve been listening to music.<\/p>\n

<\/a>I am fascinated by the fact that when I practice juggling while listening to music I am 10x more successful than when I don’t. Juggling to music somehow helps my brain and body to synch up — or it helps me to stop thinking about what I’m doing and just do it. It’s clear to me that juggling is a “brainy” activity; the left and right hands and both eyes are engaged all at once in an exercise of rhythm and pattern-making. I swear I can feel the growth of all that new grey matter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Whatever the health benefits — and there are many<\/a> — of juggling, that’s not the reason I decided I wanted to learn how to juggle. I just wanted to be able to do it — to impress and entertain my kids — to impress myself! Soon, I hope to join all the jugglers of the ages — tossing balls in the air, making patterns, playing for the sake of play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been in a delicious state of beginner-ness this past week as I’ve been teaching myself how to juggle. I’ve managed to get to the point where I can juggle 6 tosses in a row. After six tosses something happens: my brain freezes up and the entire operation falls apart. Once or twice I’ve done […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-juggling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vivtown.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}