{"id":948,"date":"2021-08-11T18:24:54","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T01:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/?p=948"},"modified":"2021-08-11T18:24:54","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T01:24:54","slug":"entertaining-outside-the-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/11\/entertaining-outside-the-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Entertaining Outside the Box"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Despite having almost<sup>1 <\/sup>never hunted, two of my favorite podcasts, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themeateater.com\/listen\/meateater\">Meateater<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.themeateater.com\/listen\/bear-grease\">Bear Grease<\/a>, are about hunting. They\u2019re both hosted by talented storytellers and both consistently get interesting guests from walks of life that I am unfamiliar with. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I recently started watching and enjoying <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/tv\/0\/jeremy-just-like-real-farmers-think-clarksons-farm\/\">Clarkson\u2019s Farm<\/a> which, say what you will about Clarkson, is a great look at what it takes to run a real farm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve seen most episodes of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/shows\/forged-in-fire\">Forged in Fire<\/a>, enough to speak the lingo of a blade smith. I\u2019ve also enjoyed 3 seasons of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/shows\/alone\">Alone<\/a>, a best-in-class wilderness survival show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve watched a full season of <a href=\"https:\/\/hermitcraft.com\/\">Hermitcraft<\/a> with my son. It\u2019s a fascinating youtube series about a world that about 20 Minecrafters build together and the storylines they invent inside it. This despite almost never playing Minecraft (anymore :)) myself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of my favorite entertainment has nothing to do with my actual work or hobbies. I\u2019m not exactly sure <em>wh<\/em>y this is the case. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s probably some combination of:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Excellent storytelling<\/li><li>The pleasure of taking mental break from things that Matter<\/li><li>Enjoying watching others in a flow state<\/li><li>The natural appeal of expertise and confidence<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The point of this is that if you\u2019re looking for something new to enjoy, look outside of your already-established hobbies and career and try something new. You\u2019ll probably be pleasantly surprised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>1<\/sup> I once hunted woodcock in Wisconsin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite having almost1 never hunted, two of my favorite podcasts, Meateater and Bear Grease, are about hunting. They\u2019re both hosted by talented storytellers and both consistently get interesting guests from walks of life that I am unfamiliar with. I recently started watching and enjoying Clarkson\u2019s Farm which, say what you will about Clarkson, is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[113],"class_list":["post-948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-etc","tag-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppj2P-fi","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":949,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions\/949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}