{"id":196,"date":"2026-05-26T02:59:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T09:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/choice.work\/?p=196"},"modified":"2026-05-26T02:59:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T09:59:51","slug":"choice-log-no-1779789468-sensory-overload","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/choice.work\/?p=196","title":{"rendered":"Choice log no. 1779789468 &#8211; Sensory overload"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deer freeze in headlights because of a sensory overload and a natural survival instinct. As crepuscular animals (most active at dawn and dusk), their eyes are specially adapted to absorb maximum light. When hit with bright headlights in the dark, they are temporarily blinded and instinctually freeze to assess the threat.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe why when I plan doing too much, I end up doing nothing at all.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/choice.work\/?tag=overload\" class=\"tag\"><span class=\"tag-prefix\">#<\/span>overload<\/a><\/p>\n<nav class='o2-post-footer-actions'><ul class='o2-post-footer-action-row'><li class='o2-post-footer-action'><a href=\"https:\/\/choice.work\/?p=196#respond\" title=\"Reply\"  class=\"o2-post-reply o2-reply genericon  genericon-reply\"  data-action=\"reply\"  data-actionstate=\"default\" >Reply<\/a><\/li><\/ul><div class='o2-post-footer-action-likes'><\/div><ul class='o2-post-footer-action-row'><\/ul><\/nav>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deer freeze in headlights because of a sensory overload and a natural survival instinct. As crepuscular animals (most active at dawn and dusk), their eyes are specially adapted to absorb maximum light. When hit with bright headlights in the dark, they are temporarily blinded and instinctually freeze to assess the threat. Maybe why when I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-choice","tag-overload","author-choice"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/choice.work\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/choice.work\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/choice.work\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/choice.work\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/choice.work\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/choice.work\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197,"href":"https:\/\/choice.work\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions\/197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/choice.work\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/choice.work\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/choice.work\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}