{"id":3209,"date":"2013-06-21T05:41:30","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T11:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/?p=3209"},"modified":"2013-09-16T20:15:45","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T02:15:45","slug":"i-hate-texting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/?p=3209","title":{"rendered":"Texting is a waste of time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I feel that the time wasted by texting over talking is huge and the only reason it&#8217;s so popular is the sneakiness of the method. I can see the usefulness of some forms of texting, short messages like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 14px;\">Running late, see you in 5.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>How far are you away?<\/li>\n<li>Have to cancel. Call you later.<\/li>\n<li>Yes<\/li>\n<li>No<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t make me kill you.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Short texts make sense. Conversations on text strike me as stupid and sneaky. Our youth is losing the art of conversation with this.<\/p>\n<h2>More Stuff<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-frc3\/988640_407368342712886_1039354551_n.jpg\" width=\"369\" height=\"373\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Went to Santa Fe and had my Jeep serviced. Dennis was with me and we saw Julie Catron there and we had a nice chat with her. Lunch was at Chicago Dogs in Santa Fe, a true Chicago style hotdog stand. Vienna dogs only sold here. It was great.<\/p>\n<p>Nice time with Dennis. Good conversation. It was a nice morning.<\/p>\n<p>PEACE<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel that the time wasted by texting over talking is huge and the only reason it&#8217;s so popular is the sneakiness of the method. I can see the usefulness of some forms of texting, short messages like: Running late, see you in 5. How far are you away? Have to cancel. Call you later. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/?p=3209\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Texting is a waste of time<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3209"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3845,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3209\/revisions\/3845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-glen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}