{"id":39335,"date":"2021-06-12T19:31:51","date_gmt":"2021-06-12T23:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=39335"},"modified":"2021-06-22T21:48:45","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T01:48:45","slug":"maintaining-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/maintaining-focus\/","title":{"rendered":"Maintaining Focus: How Cognitive Tunneling Derails You"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/how-to-maintain-focus-2\/\">maintaining focus<\/a> a challenge for you throughout the day? Do you know what cognitive tunneling is and how it impacts your ability to focus?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;ve ever been interrupted by a ringing phone, you&#8217;ve experienced cognitive tunneling. It&#8217;s an impediment to maintaining focus and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/stay-on-task\/\">staying on task<\/a>. Ultimately, your productivity suffers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more to understand cognitive tunneling and the importance of maintaining focus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Maintaining Focus Is Crucial for Productivity<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>To be productive, you need to make sure that you remain focused on what you\u2019re doing. If you continually become distracted or flit between tasks, you\u2019re not going to be as efficient or as effective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When it comes to maintaining focus, it helps to consider the factors that can prevent you from doing so. One culprit that can hamper the brain\u2019s ability to focus effectively is <strong>cognitive tunneling<\/strong>. This is a cognitive process in which the brain becomes hyper-focused on one stimulus\u2014usually the stimulus that\u2019s the most immediate and obvious\u2014at the expense of all others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What Is Cognitive Tunneling?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Cognitive tunneling makes maintaining focus a challenge. It arises when your brain is forced to transition from an automatic state to a focused state too suddenly.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When you enter a state of \u201cautomatic pilot,\u201d your brain takes the opportunity to rest. It disengages you from your surroundings. When you suddenly have to focus again, often due to an unexpected event such as receiving an unforeseen message or an unarranged phone call, your brain has to snap into \u201cfocused mode\u201d very quickly.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When this abrupt transition occurs, the brain panics and doesn\u2019t know exactly what to focus on. Rather than using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/common-sense-pamphlet\/\">common sense<\/a> and concentrating on the thing that\u2019s most important to you in your current situation, it takes the easy option. It focuses on something that\u2019s right in front of you and ignores everything else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cognitive tunneling may occur during times of extreme stress. If you\u2019re <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/getting-overwhelmed\/\">feeling overwhelmed<\/a>, this may trigger your brain\u2019s panic reaction, kick-starting its frantic search for an easy and obvious stimulus to focus on.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How Does Cognitive Tunneling Harm Productivity?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Maintaining focus is crucial to productivity. <strong>Cognitive tunneling\u2019s harm lies in the fact that the most obvious stimulus in front of you isn\u2019t necessarily the right stimulus to focus on to maintain your productivity.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For example, imagine you\u2019re at work. If your brain jumps to focus on the most obvious task that\u2019s in front of it\u2014such as an email you\u2019ve just received\u2014it may bypass more important or productive tasks. You\u2019ll end up focusing your energy on a less useful activity, and your productivity will fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Likewise, cognitive tunneling hurts your productivity by robbing you of the ability to choose what to concentrate on. You can no longer choose to focus on tasks that further your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/set-goals-and-priorities\/\">priorities and goals<\/a>. Instead, you\u2019re left at the mercy of your brain\u2019s panicked automatic reaction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maintaining focus is key to being productive. As we seek to improve productivity, it helps to understand how focus can be derailed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is maintaining focus a challenge for you throughout the day? Do you know what cognitive tunneling is and how it impacts your ability to focus? If you&#8217;ve ever been interrupted by a ringing phone, you&#8217;ve experienced cognitive tunneling. It&#8217;s an impediment to maintaining focus and staying on task. Ultimately, your productivity suffers. Read more to understand cognitive tunneling and the importance of maintaining focus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":39340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,43],"tags":[387],"class_list":["post-39335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-psychology","category-self-improvement","tag-smarter-faster-better","","tg-column-two"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.3 (Yoast SEO v24.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Maintaining Focus: How Cognitive Tunneling Derails You - Shortform Books<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Maintaining focus is a challenge. Cognitive tunneling makes it worse. Learn how cognitive tunneling derails focus and impedes productivity.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/maintaining-focus\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Maintaining Focus: How Cognitive Tunneling Derails You\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Maintaining focus is a challenge. Cognitive tunneling makes it worse. Learn how cognitive tunneling derails focus and impedes productivity.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/maintaining-focus\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Shortform Books\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-06-12T23:31:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-06-23T01:48:45+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/wordpress.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/maintaining-focus.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"750\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"269\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Elizabeth Whitworth\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Elizabeth Whitworth\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/maintaining-focus\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/maintaining-focus\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Elizabeth Whitworth\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/d2928cf6c11a69ced1491d6a5b74fb13\"},\"headline\":\"Maintaining Focus: How Cognitive Tunneling Derails You\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-06-12T23:31:51+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-06-23T01:48:45+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/maintaining-focus\/\"},\"wordCount\":530,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/maintaining-focus\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/maintaining-focus.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Smarter Faster Better\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Psychology\",\"Self-Improvement\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/maintaining-focus\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/maintaining-focus\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/maintaining-focus\/\",\"name\":\"Maintaining Focus: How Cognitive Tunneling Derails You - Shortform Books\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/maintaining-focus\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/maintaining-focus\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/maintaining-focus.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-06-12T23:31:51+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-06-23T01:48:45+00:00\",\"description\":\"Maintaining focus is a challenge. Cognitive tunneling makes it worse. Learn how cognitive tunneling derails focus and impedes productivity.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/maintaining-focus\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/maintaining-focus\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/maintaining-focus\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/maintaining-focus.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/maintaining-focus.jpg\",\"width\":750,\"height\":269},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/maintaining-focus\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Maintaining Focus: How Cognitive Tunneling Derails You\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"Shortform Books\",\"description\":\"The World&#039;s Best Book Summaries\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Shortform Books\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/logo-equilateral-with-text-no-bg.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/logo-equilateral-with-text-no-bg.png\",\"width\":500,\"height\":74,\"caption\":\"Shortform Books\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/d2928cf6c11a69ced1491d6a5b74fb13\",\"name\":\"Elizabeth Whitworth\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1fff9d65a52ac4340660218e7b63ee5e365cf08e7aa7adff79a0142cd4b96f84?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1fff9d65a52ac4340660218e7b63ee5e365cf08e7aa7adff79a0142cd4b96f84?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Elizabeth Whitworth\"},\"description\":\"Elizabeth has a lifelong love of books. She devours nonfiction, especially in the areas of history, theology, and philosophy. A switch to audiobooks has kindled her enjoyment of well-narrated fiction, particularly Victorian and early 20th-century works. She appreciates idea-driven books\u2014and a classic murder mystery now and then. Elizabeth has a Substack and is writing a book about what the Bible says about death and hell.\",\"sameAs\":[\"rina@shortform.com\"],\"award\":[\"Contributions to joint task force efforts (FBI)\",\"Contributions to Special Operations Division (DOJ & DEA)\",\"Efforts to fight the war on drugs (NSA)\",\"Contributions to Operation Storm Front (US Customs Service)\"],\"knowsAbout\":[\"History\",\"Theology\",\"Government\"],\"jobTitle\":\"Senior SEO Writer\",\"worksFor\":\"Shortform\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/author\/elizabeth\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Maintaining Focus: How Cognitive Tunneling Derails You - Shortform Books","description":"Maintaining focus is a challenge. Cognitive tunneling makes it worse. Learn how cognitive tunneling derails focus and impedes productivity.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/maintaining-focus\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Maintaining Focus: How Cognitive Tunneling Derails You","og_description":"Maintaining focus is a challenge. Cognitive tunneling makes it worse. Learn how cognitive tunneling derails focus and impedes productivity.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/maintaining-focus\/","og_site_name":"Shortform Books","article_published_time":"2021-06-12T23:31:51+00:00","article_modified_time":"2021-06-23T01:48:45+00:00","og_image":[{"width":750,"height":269,"url":"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/wordpress.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/maintaining-focus.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Elizabeth Whitworth","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Elizabeth Whitworth","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/maintaining-focus\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/maintaining-focus\/"},"author":{"name":"Elizabeth Whitworth","@id":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/d2928cf6c11a69ced1491d6a5b74fb13"},"headline":"Maintaining Focus: How Cognitive Tunneling Derails You","datePublished":"2021-06-12T23:31:51+00:00","dateModified":"2021-06-23T01:48:45+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/maintaining-focus\/"},"wordCount":530,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/maintaining-focus\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/maintaining-focus.jpg","keywords":["Smarter Faster Better"],"articleSection":["Psychology","Self-Improvement"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/maintaining-focus\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/maintaining-focus\/","url":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/maintaining-focus\/","name":"Maintaining Focus: How Cognitive Tunneling Derails You - Shortform Books","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/maintaining-focus\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/maintaining-focus\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/maintaining-focus.jpg","datePublished":"2021-06-12T23:31:51+00:00","dateModified":"2021-06-23T01:48:45+00:00","description":"Maintaining focus is a challenge. Cognitive tunneling makes it worse. Learn how cognitive tunneling derails focus and impedes productivity.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/maintaining-focus\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/maintaining-focus\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/maintaining-focus\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/maintaining-focus.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/maintaining-focus.jpg","width":750,"height":269},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/maintaining-focus\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Maintaining Focus: How Cognitive Tunneling Derails You"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/","name":"Shortform Books","description":"The World&#039;s Best Book Summaries","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/#organization","name":"Shortform Books","url":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/logo-equilateral-with-text-no-bg.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/logo-equilateral-with-text-no-bg.png","width":500,"height":74,"caption":"Shortform Books"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/d2928cf6c11a69ced1491d6a5b74fb13","name":"Elizabeth Whitworth","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1fff9d65a52ac4340660218e7b63ee5e365cf08e7aa7adff79a0142cd4b96f84?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1fff9d65a52ac4340660218e7b63ee5e365cf08e7aa7adff79a0142cd4b96f84?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Elizabeth Whitworth"},"description":"Elizabeth has a lifelong love of books. She devours nonfiction, especially in the areas of history, theology, and philosophy. A switch to audiobooks has kindled her enjoyment of well-narrated fiction, particularly Victorian and early 20th-century works. She appreciates idea-driven books\u2014and a classic murder mystery now and then. Elizabeth has a Substack and is writing a book about what the Bible says about death and hell.","sameAs":["rina@shortform.com"],"award":["Contributions to joint task force efforts (FBI)","Contributions to Special Operations Division (DOJ & DEA)","Efforts to fight the war on drugs (NSA)","Contributions to Operation Storm Front (US Customs Service)"],"knowsAbout":["History","Theology","Government"],"jobTitle":"Senior SEO Writer","worksFor":"Shortform","url":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/author\/elizabeth\/"}]}},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/maintaining-focus.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39335"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39414,"href":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39335\/revisions\/39414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}