{"id":4912,"date":"2018-01-02T14:44:36","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T22:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sifuslim.com\/?p=4912"},"modified":"2018-01-02T14:44:36","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T22:44:36","slug":"books-are-cool-reading-books-vs-digital-addiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sifuslim.com\/blog\/books-are-cool-reading-books-vs-digital-addiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Books are Cool &#8211; Reading Books vs Digital Addiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Books vs Digital Addiction<\/p>\n<p><strong>Books are Cool. Reading is fundamental.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Despite Amazon books sales, I believe the percentage of people who read books now is 95% lower than it was in the 1960s and &#8217;70s.<\/p>\n<p>Smartphone and Computer Addiction has become excessive.<\/p>\n<p>I know learned people and people who work in education who don&#8217;t read books. They mostly flip channels or use their thumbs or track pad.<\/p>\n<p>Books were not always easy to obtain.<\/p>\n<p>People were often not literate in bygone eras.<\/p>\n<p>It was a challenge to educate kids in the years 1910 &#8211; 1930 (and before) since kids often had illiterate parents and often had to work in jobs to help their families.<\/p>\n<p>Going to school was often a luxury.<\/p>\n<p>Come back to books.<\/p>\n<p>Get physical&#8211;and connect Mind, Body, and Spirit&#8211;each day.<\/p>\n<p>Physicality is good for everything, especially your biochemistry and your brain.<\/p>\n<p>Read Books: It&#8217;s good for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Books vs Digital Addiction Books are Cool. Reading is fundamental. Despite Amazon books sales, I believe the percentage of people who read books now is 95% lower than it was in the 1960s and &#8217;70s. Smartphone and Computer Addiction has become excessive. I know learned people and people who work in education who don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,19],"tags":[9,12],"class_list":["post-4912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-wellness","tag-health","tag-lifestyle","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sifuslim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sifuslim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sifuslim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sifuslim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sifuslim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sifuslim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sifuslim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sifuslim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sifuslim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sifuslim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}