{"id":15901,"date":"2024-09-16T07:37:29","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T05:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/16\/hunched-over-my-smartphone-while-my-family-slept-i-knew-i-had-to-break-my-addiction-but-how-will-clempner\/"},"modified":"2024-09-16T07:37:29","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T05:37:29","slug":"hunched-over-my-smartphone-while-my-family-slept-i-knew-i-had-to-break-my-addiction-but-how-will-clempner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/16\/hunched-over-my-smartphone-while-my-family-slept-i-knew-i-had-to-break-my-addiction-but-how-will-clempner\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunched over my smartphone while my family slept, I knew I had to break my addiction. But how? | Will Clempner"},"content":{"rendered":"

The modern world just isn\u2019t set up for non-smartphone users, but after a few faltering steps away from mine, my life changed<\/p>\n

My 16th birthday was a big deal. Not only was I allowed to throw a party at my dad\u2019s, I was also given a brand new mobile phone. I was giddy. Back in 2006, nothing said liberation to a teenager quite like unlimited texts and a free house.<\/p>\n

My friends and I set about creating the sort of chaos only a group of repressed teenagers yet to be fully exposed to the unadulterated excesses of the internet could. Little did we know that those heady days of pumping out noughties R&B from an iPod were to be some of the last of their kind. Just a few months later, Steve Jobs would unveil the first iPhone<\/a>, altering the way we interact with ourselves and the world around us for ever.<\/p>\n

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\nThe modern world just isn\u2019t set up for non-smartphone users, but after a few faltering steps away from mine, my life changed
\nMy 16th birthday was a big deal. Not only was I allowed to throw a party at my dad\u2019s, I was also given a brand new mobile phone. I was giddy. Back in 2006, nothing said liberation to a teenager quite like unlimited texts and a free house.
\nMy friends and I set about creating the sort of chaos only a group of repressed teenagers yet to be fully exposed to the unadulterated excesses of the internet could. Little did we know that those heady days of pumping out noughties R&B from an iPod were to be some of the last of their kind. Just a few months later, Steve Jobs would unveil the first iPhone, altering the way we interact with ourselves and the world around us for ever. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The modern world just isn\u2019t set up for non-smartphone users, but after a few faltering steps away from mine, my life changed My 16th birthday was a big deal. Not only was I allowed to throw a party at my dad\u2019s, I was also given a brand new mobile phone. I was giddy. Back in …<\/p>\n

Hunched over my smartphone while my family slept, I knew I had to break my addiction. But how? | Will Clempner<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15901"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}