{"id":2488,"date":"2024-01-26T11:37:36","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T11:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/26\/for-five-years-my-flip-phone-has-changed-my-life-for-the-better-yes-i-get-lost-a-lot\/"},"modified":"2024-01-26T11:37:36","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T11:37:36","slug":"for-five-years-my-flip-phone-has-changed-my-life-for-the-better-yes-i-get-lost-a-lot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/26\/for-five-years-my-flip-phone-has-changed-my-life-for-the-better-yes-i-get-lost-a-lot\/","title":{"rendered":"For five years, my flip phone has changed my life for the better. Yes, I get lost a lot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Life on the flip side has its challenges, but each day free from my soul-sucking smartphone brings moments of reprieve<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2023\/dec\/14\/sign-up-to-reclaim-your-brain-our-free-email-to-help-you-scroll-less-and-live-more\">Sign up to our free coaching newsletter to help you spend less time on your phone<\/a><\/p>\n<p>One afternoon five years ago, I walked into a Verizon store and asked a bemused salesman for the dumbest phone in the shop.<\/p>\n<p>My iPhone had recently suffered a fatal dunking while I was clumsily fishing a bass pond, and I was searching for a new device. In truth, the accident had felt serendipitous, as though, on some subconscious level, I\u2019d wanted<em> <\/em>to drown the 4G demon who lived in my pocket.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2024\/jan\/26\/flip-phone-dumbphone\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life on the flip side has its challenges, but each day free from my soul-sucking smartphone brings moments of reprieve \u2022 Sign up to our free coaching newsletter to help you spend less time on your phone One afternoon five years ago, I walked into a Verizon store and asked a bemused salesman for the &#8230; <a title=\"For five years, my flip phone has changed my life for the better. Yes, I get lost a lot\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/26\/for-five-years-my-flip-phone-has-changed-my-life-for-the-better-yes-i-get-lost-a-lot\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about For five years, my flip phone has changed my life for the better. Yes, I get lost a lot\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}