{"id":671,"date":"2026-03-04T06:52:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T06:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/boredom-is-the-price-we-pay-for-meaning-the-atlantic\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T06:52:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T06:52:16","slug":"boredom-is-the-price-we-pay-for-meaning-the-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/boredom-is-the-price-we-pay-for-meaning-the-atlantic\/","title":{"rendered":"Boredom Is the Price We Pay for Meaning &#8211; The Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Everything that displays a pattern is pregnant with boredom,\u201d Brodsky told those flabbergasted undergrads. Of course, much of what displays a pattern\u2014lifelong friendships, enduring marriages, serious scholarship, the making of art, prayer, Sunday mornings in winter\u2014is also pregnant with meaning. Boredom is the price we pay for a life rich with meaning. Recognizing this makes the feeling more endurable.<\/p>\n<p>Meaning and boredom. Boredom and meaning. Hand in hand.<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/2026\/02\/boredom-parenthood-father\/686158\/?gift=j9r7avb6p-KY8zdjhsiSZ_F90_8PNfpEYF00xv8NJPA\">www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/2026\/02\/boredom-parenthood-father\/686158\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everything that displays a pattern is pregnant with boredom,\u201d Brodsky told those flabbergasted undergrads. Of course, much of what displays a pattern\u2014lifelong friendships, enduring marriages, serious scholarship, the making of art, prayer, Sunday mornings in winter\u2014is also pregnant with meaning. Boredom is the price we pay for a life rich with meaning. Recognizing this makes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[99,7,98],"class_list":["post-671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-boredom","tag-consciousness","tag-meaning"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}