{"id":17441,"date":"2016-10-07T20:51:52","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T20:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17441"},"modified":"2016-10-07T20:51:52","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T20:51:52","slug":"in-need-of-an-intervention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17441","title":{"rendered":"In need of an intervention"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I never — not in a zillion years — thought I would say this, but here goes.<\/p>\n

I need an intervention because I left my cell phone at home today while I was at work. I felt oddly disconnected from the world.<\/p>\n

Some of you who’ve read this blog for some time know the drill. I had vowed to become the last person on Earth to own a cell phone. I waged a public — and passionate — campaign to that end.<\/p>\n

Then I declared victory and purchased my cell phone. My wife bought one, too. Our first phones weren’t of the “smart” variety. They were those flip-top phones that didn’t work very well.<\/p>\n

Then we upgraded to smart phones.<\/p>\n

I still don’t use many of the functions built into the thing, but I do rely on it for some useful things: e-mail retrieval, reading news services come immediately to mind.<\/p>\n

I left the thing at home today. I couldn’t check my e-mail, which arrives regularly during the day. I couldn’t keep up with the news and commentary.<\/p>\n

For a good part of the day I was adrift.<\/p>\n

I felt oddly out of touch.<\/p>\n

Then my work day ended. I went to meet someone for lunch, only the friend I had planned to meet had sent me a Facebook message — which I also can read on my phone — asking if we could reschedule for another day. My friend has a sinus infection and needed to see\u00a0a doctor.<\/p>\n

Had I had my phone with me, I would have known that fact and would have avoided making the trip across town for a lunch date that never materialized<\/em>.<\/p>\n

What have I become? Am I now addicted to this geeky technology?<\/p>\n

I need help!<\/p>\n\n

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I never — not in a zillion years — thought I would say this, but here goes. I need an intervention because I left my cell phone at home today while I was at work. I felt oddly disconnected from the world. Some of you who’ve read this blog for some time know the drill. … Continue reading In need of an intervention<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10],"tags":[898,4300,4536],"class_list":["post-17441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-media-news","tag-cell-phones","tag-social-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17441"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17443,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17441\/revisions\/17443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}