{"id":231,"date":"2007-11-19T10:24:22","date_gmt":"2007-11-19T14:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godandculture.wordpress.com\/2007\/11\/19\/plugged-in-tuned-out\/"},"modified":"2007-11-19T10:24:22","modified_gmt":"2007-11-19T14:24:22","slug":"plugged-in-tuned-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/plugged-in-tuned-out","title":{"rendered":"Plugged In = Tuned Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Erin Manning over at the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/crunchycon\/\">Crunchy Con Blog<\/a> has an interesting post on the allure of the latest techo-gadgets and their ultimate impact on our ability to relate communally. She concludes by observing,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We can&#8217;t acquire a sense of community with our faces intent on the pocket-sized screen in the palm of our hands. We can&#8217;t admire the unexpected beauty of a robin&#8217;s song when the pellet-shaped buds in our ears deafen us to his presence. We can&#8217;t experience even a moment of peace, when the voice on the other end of the line constantly demands our attention, our focus, our energy.<\/p>\n<p>We can&#8217;t appreciate life, if all we are doing is entertaining ourselves to death.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the entire post <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/crunchycon\/2007\/11\/erin-entertaining-ourselves-to.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erin Manning over at the Crunchy Con Blog has an interesting post on the allure of the latest techo-gadgets and their ultimate impact on our ability to relate communally. She concludes by observing, We can&#8217;t acquire a sense of community &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/plugged-in-tuned-out\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}