{"id":7773,"date":"2012-01-24T23:16:32","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T04:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=7773"},"modified":"2012-01-24T23:18:10","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T04:18:10","slug":"cell-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=7773","title":{"rendered":"Cell phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I lost my cell phone a few weeks back, one of the hazards of extensive travel.  The rational decision would have been to run right out and get another phone.  Everyone knows that no human being can survive for even five minutes without an internet equipped SmartPhone in immediate reach.  But for some insane reason I decided to do the crazy thing, to take my life in my hands and not immediately find a replacement phone.<\/p>\n<p>I still have my cell phone account, so if anyone leaves voice mail I can hear it.  Yet I can also wander the city for literally hours at a time unencumbered by even the possibility of receiving a call, checking voice messages or reading email.<\/p>\n<p>I cannot remember the last time I have felt such an exhilarating sense of freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Oh yes, I know that at some point I will break down and get another phone.  After all, it is unnatural for <i>Homo Sapiens<\/i> to walk around without an electronic umbilical cord.  If humans were meant to be without cell phones, God wouldn&#8217;t have given us unbreakable service plans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I lost my cell phone a few weeks back, one of the hazards of extensive travel. The rational decision would have been to run right out and get another phone. Everyone knows that no human being can survive for even five minutes without an internet equipped SmartPhone in immediate reach. But for some insane reason &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=7773\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cell phone&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7773"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7773"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7776,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7773\/revisions\/7776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}