{"id":3231,"date":"2019-12-21T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2019-12-21T09:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/?p=3231"},"modified":"2020-02-11T18:55:30","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T18:55:30","slug":"story-christmas-bell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/21\/3231\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Bell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/advent-3859827_1920-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/advent-3859827_1920-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/advent-3859827_1920-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/advent-3859827_1920-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/advent-3859827_1920-451x300.jpg 451w, https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/advent-3859827_1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The story \u201cChristmas Bell\u201d can be used to illustrate the phenomenon of \u201cinstitutional blindness\u201d or to highlight the fact that the unconscious mind tends to provide the conscious mind only with new information or information associated with a message of some kind (a warning or the answer to a question).<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On one of the last days of April I took down a\nChristmas bell which was hanging from a hook on the ceiling. I had got so used\nto seeing the bell as part of my surroundings that I had not noticed it at all\nduring all the months which had passed since Christmas. I had simply no longer\nperceived it. It was the last of the Christmas decorations \u2013 or was it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story \u201cChristmas Bell\u201d can be used to illustrate the phenomenon of \u201cinstitutional blindness\u201d or to highlight the fact that the unconscious mind tends to provide the conscious mind only with new information or information associated with a message of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/21\/3231\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3231"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3674,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3231\/revisions\/3674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}