{"id":1014667,"date":"2026-06-16T07:51:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T02:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1014667"},"modified":"2026-06-16T07:59:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T02:29:06","slug":"burnt-out-indonesians-beat-the-blues-with-childrens-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/16\/burnt-out-indonesians-beat-the-blues-with-childrens-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Burnt-out Indonesians beat the blues with children&#8217;s games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flushed and sweating, 31-year-old Annisa Enggracia Fidel runs back and forth to defend her fort from invaders &#8212; hundreds of fellow adults all beating the blues by playing a nostalgic Indonesian children&#8217;s game. <\/p>\n<p>The tech professional is a member of Jakarta&#8217;s &#8220;Playing Community&#8221;, a group that gathers after work every Friday to let off steam in ways not usually associated with grown-ups. <\/p>\n<p>Similar get-togethers have sprung up elsewhere in the Southeast Asian nation as larger numbers of burnt-out workers seek novel solutions for handling stress and maintaining mental health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flushed and sweating, 31-year-old Annisa Enggracia Fidel runs back and forth to defend her fort from invaders &#8212; hundreds of fellow adults all beating the blues by playing a nostalgic Indonesian children&#8217;s game. The tech professional is a member of Jakarta&#8217;s &#8220;Playing Community&#8221;, a group that gathers after work every Friday to let off steam in ways not usually associated with grown-ups. Similar get-togethers have sprung up elsewhere in the Southeast Asian nation as larger numbers of burnt-out workers seek novel solutions for handling stress and maintaining mental health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1014667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1014667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1014694,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014667\/revisions\/1014694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}