{"id":390,"date":"2012-08-19T21:17:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T01:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/?p=390"},"modified":"2012-08-19T21:17:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T01:17:00","slug":"content-consumer-addiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/2012\/08\/19\/content-consumer-addiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Content Consumer Addiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had an iPad for over two years now. I&#8217;ve mostly ditched my laptop. I use the iPad for everything. Seriously. In fact, being the self-proclaimed a-type personality that I am, I even take it with me everywhere. I might need it.<\/p>\n<p>But for what? Reading books, magazines or newspapers. Watching movies, videos or tv shows. Playing games. Doing my work. Updating this blog. Social media. Shopping. In other words, consuming content.<\/p>\n<p>What happened to creating? Creating content? I don&#8217;t think updating Facebook counts. I&#8217;m talking about writing, drawing, designing &#8211; and in the process &#8211; thinking, imagining, dreaming. The iPad can help with this. But with all the distractions of apps that can consume, we really have to train ourselves to create and learn again. <\/p>\n<p>I took some time out from some games to learn. I read a few chapters of the iPad Users Guide available free in iBooks. Hey, it&#8217;s a start. <\/p>\n<p>So, put down that game-playing video-watching Facebook-updating iPad and pick up that itunes university-learning, Ted-educational-video-watching, authoring-tool iPad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had an iPad for over two years now. I&#8217;ve mostly ditched my laptop. I use the iPad for everything. Seriously. In fact, being the self-proclaimed a-type personality that I am, I even take it with me everywhere. I might need it. But for what? Reading books, magazines or newspapers. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":391,"href":"https:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions\/391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericstechblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}