{"id":327,"date":"2006-04-21T21:29:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-22T02:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/2006\/04\/21\/brain-age\/"},"modified":"2006-04-21T21:29:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-22T02:29:00","slug":"brain-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/2006\/04\/21\/brain-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Brain Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000EGELP0\/robandjenspla-20\">DS game<\/a> is pretty cool.  Gots all sorts of little brain stretchy exercises in it, and it&apos;s fun too.  Right now <lj user=\"sqlrob\"> has hijacked my DS and is stretching his brain on my game.  Hmmph.<\/p>\n<p>So I was sitting on the couch playing it earlier.  One of the games is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dcity.org\/braingames\/stroop\/\">Stroop test<\/a> &#8211; where you say out loud the <i>color<\/i> of the word, and not the word itself.  For instance, if you saw <font color=\"red\"><b>yellow<\/b><\/font> you would say &#8220;red&#8221; and not &#8220;yellow&#8221;.  I&apos;m in the middle of this exercise and my Siamese comes up to me, obviously convinced that I <i>must<\/i> be talking to her.  She jumps up on the back of the couch, stares directly into my face and starts yowling at me as only a siamese can do.  Between her yowls and me doggedly trying to talk into the DS while giggling, the game got a little confused.  Needless to say, my score suffered.<\/p>\n<p>Now if you&apos;ll excuse me, I need to go relearn my 7-9 times tables.  Sigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This new DS game is pretty cool. Gots all sorts of little brain stretchy exercises in it, and it&apos;s fun too. Right now has hijacked my DS and is stretching his brain on my game. Hmmph. So I was sitting on the couch playing it earlier. One of the games is a Stroop test &#8211; where you say out loud the color of the word, and not the word itself. For instance, if you saw yellow you would say &#8220;red&#8221; and not &#8220;yellow&#8221;. I&apos;m in the middle of this exercise and my Siamese comes up to me, obviously convinced that I must be talking to her. She jumps up on the back of the couch, stares directly into my face and starts yowling at me as only a siamese can do. Between her yowls and me doggedly trying to talk into the DS while giggling, the game got a little confused. Needless to say, my score suffered. Now if you&apos;ll excuse me, I need to go relearn my 7-9 times tables. Sigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}