{"id":188,"date":"2011-06-20T07:56:08","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T14:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lyndonantcliff.com\/marketing\/?p=188"},"modified":"2011-06-20T07:56:08","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T14:56:08","slug":"why-it-makes-sense-to-throw-away-your-smartphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lyndonantcliff.com\/marketing\/time-management\/why-it-makes-sense-to-throw-away-your-smartphone\/","title":{"rendered":"Why it makes sense to throw away your Smartphone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the wireless today I listened to how an architect had enough of being addicted to his \u00a3500 smartphone and just threw it in the bin.<\/p>\n<p>He said it was affecting his attention span and causing him to constantly check emails, even when in conversation with a group of friends.<\/p>\n<p>I absolutely have had the same desire, although I am not addicted to my iPhone, I do have the constant distant thought that I am always connected, always being tracked. I&#8217;m also way too stingy to through away my very expensive communication device.<\/p>\n<p>What I would miss most is my bar code reader which scans barcodes and then searches the Internet for the same product and compares pricing. It&#8217;s amazing the price differential these days and makes buying on the Internet a more likely thing.<\/p>\n<p>There is of course the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slowmovement.com\/\">slow movement<\/a>, who I&#8217;m sure would give a free hug to anyone throwing their smartphone in the bin. But I see such an act more as an art form, or a form of expression. Something to highlight the absurdity of smartphones and social media. <\/p>\n<p>After all, we did get to the Moon and back without one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the wireless today I listened to how an architect had enough of being addicted to his \u00a3500 smartphone and just threw it in the bin. He said it was affecting his attention span and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[37,49,48,47,35],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-time-management","tag-add","tag-attention-span","tag-iphone","tag-smartphone","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lyndonantcliff.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lyndonantcliff.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lyndonantcliff.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lyndonantcliff.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lyndonantcliff.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lyndonantcliff.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189,"href":"https:\/\/www.lyndonantcliff.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions\/189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lyndonantcliff.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lyndonantcliff.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lyndonantcliff.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}