{"id":13845,"date":"2009-10-04T10:29:55","date_gmt":"2009-10-04T15:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=13845"},"modified":"2012-10-14T02:03:13","modified_gmt":"2012-10-14T07:03:13","slug":"the-attention-span-1938-and-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/10\/04\/the-attention-span-1938-and-today\/","title":{"rendered":"The Attention Span: 1938 and Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This nine-minute 1938 promotion video for White Sands National Monument is a stunning example of how incredibly short our attention spans have become.\u00a0 Or is it just me?\u00a0 Or maybe they found this mindnumblingly slow in 1938 also?<\/p>\n<p>The introductory title pages finally fade away so that the substantive material can begin at about 40 seconds in.\u00a0 40 seconds!\u00a0 I was dying from boredom at about second 15!\u00a0 See how long you can stand to watch it:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/InIO38gLHs8&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weirduniverse.net\/blog\/permalink\/white_sands_national_monument\/#When:17:32:00Z\" target=\"_blank\">Weird Universe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Lisa Wade is a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">professor of sociology at Occidental College<\/a>. You can follow her on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\/followers\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Lisa-Wade-PhD\/174350419354908\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This nine-minute 1938 promotion video for White Sands National Monument is a stunning example of how incredibly short our attention spans have become.\u00a0 Or is it just me?\u00a0 Or maybe they found this mindnumblingly slow in 1938 also? The introductory title pages finally fade away so that the substantive material can begin at about 40 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2123,253,129],"class_list":["post-13845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-environmentnature","tag-history","tag-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13845"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51791,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13845\/revisions\/51791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}