{"id":2246,"date":"2005-02-10T01:16:36","date_gmt":"2005-02-10T05:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2005\/02\/10\/\/"},"modified":"2005-02-10T01:16:36","modified_gmt":"2005-02-10T05:16:36","slug":"2246","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2005\/02\/2246\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/magazine\/4242751.stm\" rel=\"external\">Why I&#8217;m giving up broadband for 56K<\/a><br \/>David McCandless explains why he&#8217;s given it the boot.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sit down to work. Ten minutes in, the new mail icon tempts me from the bottom of the screen. I&#8217;ll just check. Nothing like a few juicy new e-mails. Click a few links. Scan a few websites. Oh 20 minutes has just passed. Better get back to work. Now where was I? Start work again. Feel like a reward. I&#8217;ll just check news.bbc.co.uk. See if anything&#8217;s happened in the three minutes since I last looked. Follow a few &#8216;related links&#8217;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Half an hour has passed. I feel like I&#8217;ve done something, but actually I haven&#8217;t. All that&#8217;s happened is that I&#8217;ve been distracted by constantly rising info urges. I spend most of my day like this, divided between what I need to do and what the internet wants me to do &#8211; which is look at it. Constantly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a really good article, I can&#8217;t dispute what he is saying, but I could never do it. That would be like chopping off my arm and my head, and what good would that do?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(This article was found on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jecate.blogspot.com\/\" rel=\"external\">Jennifer<\/a>&#8216;s blog)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why I&#8217;m giving up broadband for 56KDavid McCandless explains why he&#8217;s given it the boot. &#8220;Sit down to work. Ten minutes in, the new mail icon tempts me from the bottom of the screen. I&#8217;ll just check. Nothing like a few juicy new e-mails. Click a few links. Scan a few websites. Oh 20 minutes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}