{"id":1999,"date":"2007-01-29T00:40:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-29T06:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=1999"},"modified":"2012-05-15T16:36:48","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T22:36:48","slug":"americans-spend-more-time-with-their-computer-than-spouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/americans-spend-more-time-with-their-computer-than-spouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans spend more time with their computer than spouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifehacker.com\/software\/family\/reader-poll--do-you-spend-more-time-on-your-computer-than-with-your-sig-other-231624.php\">Lifehacker<\/A>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A recent &#8220;<span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/sev.prnewswire.com\/computer-electronics\/20070122\/CLM05422012007-1.html\">Cyber Stress<\/span>&#8221; study shows that 65% of Americans spend more time on their computers than with their spouses. The study also found:<\/p>\n<p><em>The average consumer has experienced computer troubles eight times &#8211; about every four months &#8211; over the last three years.<br \/>\nThe average American is wasting 12 hours per month &#8211; the equivalent of half a weekend &#8211; due to problems with their home computer.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And my personal favorite:<\/p>\n<p><em>A majority of Americans (52%) describe their most recent experience with a computer problem as one of anger, sadness or alienation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Oh, and don&#8217;t let this poll make you late to dinner with your wife\/hubby. \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Gina Trapani<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Lifehacker: A recent &#8220;Cyber Stress&#8221; study shows that 65% of Americans spend more time on their computers than with their spouses. The study also found: The average consumer has experienced computer troubles eight times &#8211; about every four months &#8211; over the last three years. The average American is wasting 12 hours per month &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/americans-spend-more-time-with-their-computer-than-spouse\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Americans spend more time with their computer than spouse<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[1492,2422,1108,1370],"class_list":["post-1999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-techno","tag-american","tag-computer","tag-lifehacker","tag-time"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-wf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}