{"id":5140,"date":"2019-11-12T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/blog\/?p=5140"},"modified":"2019-11-03T15:32:23","modified_gmt":"2019-11-03T20:32:23","slug":"welcome-to-boston-almost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/welcome-to-boston-almost\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Boston! (Almost)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is me. (I&#8217;m the one on the left.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/DSC_0307.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5141\" src=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/DSC_0307-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/DSC_0307-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/DSC_0307-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/DSC_0307-1024x680.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I mostly stay out of the way on this blog: the research and the teachers are the stars.<\/p>\n<p>But, I always enjoy the e-conversations I get to have with people from across the globe. (Just yesterday, an email from Australia!)\u00a0 I&#8217;ve learned so much, even (especially?) when we disagree.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m in New Jersey and Philadelphia right now, talking about <strong>self-control<\/strong> and <strong>adolescence<\/strong>; <strong>attention<\/strong> and <strong>working memory<\/strong>; the benefits of <strong>optimistic skepticism<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>And, I&#8217;m more excited day by day to catch up with my Learning and the Brain peeps in just a few days.<\/p>\n<p>So, I hope you&#8217;ll come introduce yourselves to me at our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.learningandthebrain.com\/\/conference-404\/learning-how-to-learn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">November conference<\/a>: Learning How to Learn. It will be wonderful to put names to faces!<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested, I&#8217;ll be talking about the science of motivation on Friday morning. I hope to see you there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to putting names to faces at our Boston conference!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":5141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lb-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5140"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5145,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5140\/revisions\/5145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}