{"id":37635,"date":"2011-11-20T04:57:25","date_gmt":"2011-11-20T04:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/on-the-few-recent-occasions-that-i-have-dragged\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T14:33:30","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T21:33:30","slug":"on-the-few-recent-occasions-that-i-have-dragged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/on-the-few-recent-occasions-that-i-have-dragged\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-37635 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/on-the-few-recent-occasions-that-i-have-dragged\/attachment\/37636\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"90\" height=\"56\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_luy0fpuOVZ1qene28o1_100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>On the few recent occasions that I have dragged myself to a friend&rsquo;s house, or vice versa, we spend most of the time staring at our smart phones and tablets. What exactly is the benefit of physical proximity in that scenario? \u201cCheck out this funny tweet I just sent\u201d doesn&rsquo;t really count as conversation, does it? And there&rsquo;s always the one poor guy who didn&rsquo;t bring his laptop and has to continually ask one of us to check his scores for him. He might as well be watching the game through a hole in a wooden fence like a cartoon character from the 1930s. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/sports\/sports_nut\/2011\/11\/football_on_television_why_none_of_my_friends_wants_to_watch_football_with_me_.html\">Football on television: Why none of my friends wants to watch football with me. &#8211; Slate Magazine<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the few recent occasions that I have dragged myself to a friend&rsquo;s house, or vice versa, we spend most of the time staring at our smart phones and tablets. What exactly is the benefit of physical proximity in that scenario? \u201cCheck out this funny tweet I just sent\u201d doesn&rsquo;t really count as conversation, does [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[1539],"class_list":["post-37635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","tag-emergent-digital-practices","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-9N1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37637,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37635\/revisions\/37637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}