{"id":5287,"date":"2026-03-16T19:33:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T19:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.glastonburyabbey.org\/?post_type=mec-events&#038;p=5287"},"modified":"2026-03-16T19:33:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T19:33:55","slug":"commonweal-conversation-7-485-705","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/www.glastonburyabbey.org\/index.php\/events\/commonweal-conversation-7-485-705\/","title":{"rendered":"Commonweal Conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Topic: <strong>\u201cTechnology &amp; the Attention Economy\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Excessive screen time continues to be a cause for concern. Often correlated with increased anxiety and depression, more studies are suggesting that screen time is contributing to cognitive and linguistic delays, particularly for the youngest among us. And it\u2019s not just kids. As a number of new books argue many of us face real problems with attention and distraction.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This program will be presented via Zoom only. <\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Please <a href=\"https:\/\/gacc.retreatportal.com\/events\/f?p=101:2:31636359446136::::PROGRAM_ID:8049\">click here<\/a> to register online to receive the Zoom information and pre-reading articles necessary to participate.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Topic: \u201cTechnology &amp; the Attention Economy\u201d Excessive screen time continues to be a cause for concern. Often correlated with increased anxiety and depression, more studies are<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"mec_category":[53],"class_list":["post-5287","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","hentry","mec_category-spiritual-enrichment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glastonburyabbey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/5287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glastonburyabbey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glastonburyabbey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mec-events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glastonburyabbey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glastonburyabbey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glastonburyabbey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glastonburyabbey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5287"},{"taxonomy":"mec_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glastonburyabbey.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec_category?post=5287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}