{"id":2729,"date":"2007-08-01T09:43:17","date_gmt":"2007-08-01T15:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=2729"},"modified":"2012-05-21T14:21:43","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T20:21:43","slug":"throw-your-cellphone-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/throw-your-cellphone-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Throw your cellphone away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/gadgets\/2007\/07\/ten-reasons-to-.html\">Wired<\/span> offers 10 reasons to throw your cellphone away.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It makes your life more complicated<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s horribly expensive<\/li>\n<li>It enslaves you to a one-sided contract<\/li>\n<li>It makes you perpetually available<\/li>\n<li>It is boring<\/li>\n<li>It must constantly be recharged<\/li>\n<li>It knows where you are<\/li>\n<li>It encourages stupid people to become a public menace<\/li>\n<li>Ubiquitous pleather accessory shops<\/li>\n<li>It turns you into a public annoyance &#8211; Hell is other people&#8217;s ringtones.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve gotten to where I&#8217;m using the actual phone part of my cellphone less and less. I often leave it in the car or at home whenever I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll need it. It&#8217;s still a security blanket in some regards. But I do love the convenience of sending prayer requests or other text messages to a number of people all at once without having to pick up the phone over and over again to pass along a message.<br \/>\nWhat about you? Could you drop your cellphone and move back &#8220;into the stone age?&#8221;<br \/>\nWhat if we just all went to two way pagers? Could you live with that?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/lifehacker\/full\/~3\/139579805\/-284741.php\">Lifehacker <\/a>for the tip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wired offers 10 reasons to throw your cellphone away. It makes your life more complicated It&#8217;s horribly expensive It enslaves you to a one-sided contract It makes you perpetually available It is boring It must constantly be recharged It knows where you are It encourages stupid people to become a public menace Ubiquitous pleather accessory &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/throw-your-cellphone-away\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Throw your cellphone away<\/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":[23,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-hacks","category-techno"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-I1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729","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=2729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}