{"id":52,"date":"2005-04-18T23:12:32","date_gmt":"2005-04-18T23:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=52"},"modified":"2015-07-21T11:18:01","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T10:18:01","slug":"waiting-for-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/?p=52","title":{"rendered":"Waiting for power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are we so far gone down the electronic entertainment rabbit hole that people have forgotten what else to do?<\/p>\n<p>A few times recently we&#8217;ve had power cuts and I&#8217;ve observed a number of people sitting there in front of the hi-fi\/TV\/PC\/games console\/whatever waiting for it to come back on. Just sitting there. Waiting. Waiting for the electronic entertainment to start again. Sometimes for an hour or 2.<\/p>\n<p>My god. Am I the only person that knows about things called books and other non-power dependent activities?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are we so far gone down the electronic entertainment rabbit hole that people have forgotten what else to do? A few times recently we&#8217;ve had power cuts and I&#8217;ve observed a number of people sitting there in front of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/?p=52\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":697,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adamsweet.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}