{"id":726,"date":"2011-02-08T17:43:31","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T01:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.reed.edu\/alan\/2011\/02\/put-it-down-nah.html"},"modified":"2014-03-18T10:14:40","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T17:14:40","slug":"put-it-down-nah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/2011\/02\/put-it-down-nah\/","title":{"rendered":"Put it down? Nah &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;I <b>never <\/b>put down my gadgets; I stay connected 24-7, and I preferably<br \/>\nenjoy responding to messages in public spaces, where people can see me<br \/>\nfrenetically responding to people who need me. Collectively, all my<br \/>\nobservations here confirm my self-importance, and that, after all, is<br \/>\nthe importance of staying connected 24-7.<\/p>\n<p>Silence frightens me . .<br \/>\n . the monastics, the mystics, those comfortable with silence . . .<br \/>\nperhaps they are onto something about what truly matters in life.<\/p>\n<p>Nah . . .&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This was the first comment on a weekend story, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/02\/05\/working-constantly-thanks-to-technology\/?ref=technology\"><b>Working Constantly, Thanks to Technology<\/b><\/a>&#8221; (NY Times, Feb 5, 2011). I don&#8217;t know if anyone really works constantly. I know I don&#8217;t. But I do know this: When my work device is also my leisure device, I&#8217;ve got a problem. And when this device weighs just a pound or two and boasts incredible storage and high-speed connectivity, I&#8217;m just digging myself in deeper. &#8220;Leaving work at the office&#8221; was something my Dad could do almost effortlessly, but I don&#8217;t know if today&#8217;s Dads can disconnect so easily. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;I never put down my gadgets; I stay connected 24-7, and I preferably enjoy responding to messages in public spaces, where people can see me frenetically responding to people who need me. Collectively, all my observations here confirm my self-importance,&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/2011\/02\/put-it-down-nah\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=726"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2284,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions\/2284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/alan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}