{"id":330,"date":"2011-08-14T17:07:49","date_gmt":"2011-08-14T22:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/?p=330"},"modified":"2018-11-06T02:52:24","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T07:52:24","slug":"boring-and-interesting-are-not-direct-opposites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/2011\/08\/14\/boring-and-interesting-are-not-direct-opposites\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Boring<\/em> and <em>Interesting<\/em> are <strong>Not<\/strong> Direct Opposites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems intuitive that the opposite of interesting is boring or vice versa. However, the truth is that is not quite the case.<\/p>\n<p>For example, a boring movie is one in which nothing really happens. A movie such as this would be unlikely to hold the viewer\u2019s attention. A movie does not necessarily however need to be boring to lose the viewer\u2019s attention; it can have plenty going on, yet still be uninteresting enough that the viewer\u2019s mind starts to wander. Some (all too-)common examples of non-boring, but entirely uninteresting tropes frequently used in movies include car-chases, shoot-outs, sex-scenes, and <\/p>\n<p>(This is the case at this very moment, as I type this. I am trying to watch a movie, which I would hardly call\u00a0\u201cboring\u201d, yet I keep pausing to do other things because it just can\u2019t hold my attention like some of the others movies I\u2019ve watched recently. I should have been done two hours ago, but I still have 30 mins. left. I should get back to it now, or else I\u2019ll never finish\u2026)<\/p>\n<div class=\"tagcloud\"><a href=\"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/tag\/language\/\" rel=\"tag\">Language<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems intuitive that the opposite of interesting is boring or vice versa. However, the truth is that is not quite the case. For example, a boring movie is one in which nothing really happens. A movie such as this would be unlikely to hold the viewer\u2019s attention. A movie does not necessarily however need [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/smarticles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}