{"id":13694,"date":"2013-12-27T22:36:18","date_gmt":"2013-12-28T03:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/?p=13694"},"modified":"2013-12-27T22:36:18","modified_gmt":"2013-12-28T03:36:18","slug":"holiday-update-my-tech-dieting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/holiday-update-my-tech-dieting\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday update: My tech dieting"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I read a post<\/a>….called…wait for it…<\/h3>\n

One Month with No Phone \u2014 How to Go Phoneless in a Major US City<\/h1>\n

at Tim Ferriss’ site that made me want to laugh and cry and then shake my head and then sigh…and now…confess.<\/p>\n

So, it’s like this…<\/p>\n

A whole generation can’t imagine what it’s like to live without a mobile phone and miraculously\u00a0guest writer<\/a>,\u00a0Lane Wood…(sounds like a bowling alley product, right?) managed a whole month<\/span> without one. He got around it with tons of technology and had to acquire a lot of patience. But, he’s still alive and everything.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But…Um. We do remember that just a few years ago most people didn’t have smart phones, right? Yes? Even you youthful Millenials?<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Duh. Not even ten years ago we had stupid phones. Now the phone have a distinct intellectual edge, obviously.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I’m not a ancient relic, but I remember when “communication technology” was finding a creepy phone box thing that eat quarters and held you hostage with its strong metal cord. I would tell the operator, or the computer, my name was “Pick Me Up” so my dad would fetch me from Volleyball practice. The only people who had mobile phones were doctors, and most of them still had pagers. (If you’re clueless here, Google it up, okay.) Things have changed so much in so little time. I can barely remember a time that I wasn’t somehow attached to tech like I am now. CRAZZZZY.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Having no money makes you creative apparently, and now Lane’s an evangelist warning us that tech is cramping our lives and making us less human. No, it’s not big news, but I’m glad it’s getting more “air time” anyhow. Seriously.<\/em><\/p>\n

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I’m not posting now to pass judgement. Nope. I have changed to adopt the norms this guy has (seemingly) only ever known. Guilty. as. charged. Lane, I thank you. But, it is sort of sad, all of it.<\/p>\n

Now to the good news:<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the last few days, because my kids have been on vacation, I have gone on a major diet…not with food…I was bad on that front. No, I haven’t used my phone, Facebook, twitter, Buffer, on been on my blog or or anyone else’s almost at all.<\/p>\n

It’s been…NICE!<\/p>\n

It’s like being able to breathe again. Lane, I’m with you!<\/p>\n

Have you been on any sort of diet this season?<\/p>\n

How long could you last without technology?<\/p>\n

And I’m curious…what did you think of Lane’s article<\/a>? Let me know.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s like being able to breathe again. Lane, I’m with you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5335,5626,76],"tags":[146,205,4985,434,477,492,3818,855,864,880,976,4377,1503,1518,5738,1660,1697,5314,1742,1763,4081,1921,4848,2241,2248,5003,2521,5651,4465,5333,83,3421,3444,3565,3574,3765],"class_list":["post-13694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creativity","category-spark-my-muse","category-spirituality","tag-adopt","tag-ancient","tag-bad","tag-blog","tag-bowling","tag-breathe","tag-computer","tag-creative","tag-creepy","tag-cry","tag-diet","tag-do","tag-good","tag-google","tag-guest-writer","tag-holiday","tag-hostage","tag-how-to","tag-i-am","tag-in","tag-just","tag-kids","tag-laugh","tag-mobile-phone","tag-money","tag-norms","tag-people","tag-post","tag-remember","tag-tech","tag-technology","tag-things","tag-time","tag-update","tag-vacation","tag-writer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13694"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13699,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13694\/revisions\/13699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}