{"id":106,"date":"2009-06-08T21:59:20","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T16:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themidnightsun.wordpress.com\/2009\/06\/08\/unplugged-unconnected-and-also-uncomfortable\/"},"modified":"2009-06-08T21:59:20","modified_gmt":"2009-06-08T16:29:20","slug":"unplugged-unconnected-and-also-uncomfortable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lguruprasad.in\/blog\/2009\/06\/08\/unplugged-unconnected-and-also-uncomfortable\/","title":{"rendered":"Unplugged &#038; unconnected and also Uncomfortable!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have got so used to life with Internet at college that when at home without hi-speed internet connectivity, I feel so uncomfortable. I can&#8217;t check emails very frequently, I can&#8217;t download stuff, I can&#8217;t google and find out answers, I can&#8217;t do this and I can&#8217;t do that etc.. Life away from the Internet now seems so alien to me and without google I only feel half alive.<\/p>\n<p>When at home I have to go to nearby browsing centers to surf the internet at moderate speeds, whereas at college I have unlimited, free, hi-speed internet round the clock which I am so used to using. Life without Internet seems so different and eerie, but I do realise that I live a more orderly, proper life at home without Internet connectivity than at college.Of course Internet is a great boon and an unlimited reservoir of knowledge and information, but most of the times I am so immersed into the Internet that I spend too little or no time for other essential things.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Thus, the stay at home is kind of a welcome break for me from the Internet and I do realise now that such breaks are really good for me than bad. So I am shelving my plan to get a broadband Internet connection at home for now, so that home remains home!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have got so used to life with Internet at college that when at home without hi-speed internet connectivity, I feel so uncomfortable. I can&#8217;t check emails very frequently, I can&#8217;t download stuff, I can&#8217;t google and find out answers, I can&#8217;t do this and I can&#8217;t do that etc.. Life away from the Internet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[93,104,195],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-home","tag-internet","tag-unconnected"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lguruprasad.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lguruprasad.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lguruprasad.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lguruprasad.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lguruprasad.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lguruprasad.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lguruprasad.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lguruprasad.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lguruprasad.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}