{"id":3235,"date":"2020-02-01T09:00:08","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T09:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/?p=3235"},"modified":"2020-02-11T18:54:19","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T18:54:19","slug":"story-hearing-difficulty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/01\/3235\/","title":{"rendered":"Hearing Difficulty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/sculpture-3365574_1920-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/sculpture-3365574_1920-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/sculpture-3365574_1920-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/sculpture-3365574_1920-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/sculpture-3365574_1920-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/sculpture-3365574_1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The story \u201cHearing Difficulty\u201d picks up on the fact that tinnitus sufferers often focus their attention on the wrong thing. It can be used not only in connection with tinnitus, but also as a metaphor for many other internal and external conflicts.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I remember a particular teacher who taught me when I\nwas at school and whose lessons seemed to me both easy to follow and\ninformative. Then one day another pupil pointed out how often she ummed and\nahhed while she was talking, and that ruined everything. Up until then I had been\nable to listen to her words and had not even noticed the hesitations, but from\nthen on I could only hear, \u201cum\u2026. ah\u2026.. um.\u201d The words that she said were\nnothing but pauses between the sounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story \u201cHearing Difficulty\u201d picks up on the fact that tinnitus sufferers often focus their attention on the wrong thing. It can be used not only in connection with tinnitus, but also as a metaphor for many other internal and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/01\/3235\/\">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-3235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235","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=3235"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3671,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235\/revisions\/3671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stefanhammel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}