{"id":1377,"date":"2017-03-08T11:24:57","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T16:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=1377"},"modified":"2017-03-06T13:31:37","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T18:31:37","slug":"time-to-un-plug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=1377","title":{"rendered":"Time to Un-Plug?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/FullSizeRender.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-1405\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/FullSizeRender-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"148\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/FullSizeRender-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/FullSizeRender-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/FullSizeRender-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/FullSizeRender.jpg 1554w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 148px) 100vw, 148px\" \/><\/a>Empathy, intimacy, learning to read body language and understanding how to talk\u00a0face-to-face are crucial parts of being human, but now that we spend hours in front of our tiny glowing smartphone screens, scientists fear we are losing our ability to communicate. \u00a0According to MIT sociologist Sherry Turkle, these hours devoted to Facebook, games and texts are hurting our\u00a0capacity to be present with other humans.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When was the last time you chose a walk with a friend over a text or PM chat?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What are we teaching all the children who are playing on phones instead of interacting with those around them?<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/greatergood.berkeley.edu\/article\/item\/how_smartphones_are_killing_conversation\">How Smartphones Are Killing Conversation<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Empathy, intimacy, learning to read body language and understanding how to talk\u00a0face-to-face are crucial parts of being human, but now that we spend hours in front of our tiny glowing smartphone screens, scientists fear we are losing our ability to communicate. \u00a0According to MIT sociologist Sherry Turkle, these hours devoted to Facebook, games and texts &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/?p=1377\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Time to Un-Plug?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,835],"tags":[392,849,855,15,856,850,670,853,851,854,848,857,852],"class_list":["post-1377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-federal-income-tax","category-health","tag-communication","tag-conversation","tag-empathy","tag-facebook","tag-intimacy","tag-mit","tag-phones","tag-pm","tag-relationships","tag-sherry-turtle","tag-smartphones","tag-talk","tag-texting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1377"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1406,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377\/revisions\/1406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nw-cpa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}