{"id":137,"date":"2005-11-14T11:06:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-14T11:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eclecticamateur.wordpress.com\/2005\/11\/14\/that-would-explain-it"},"modified":"2005-11-14T11:06:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-14T11:06:00","slug":"that-would-explain-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/that-would-explain-it.html\/","title":{"rendered":"That would explain it"},"content":{"rendered":"

And here I was wondering if age was catching up with me — instead, it may be my Internet use (hat tip: Jeff Culbreath<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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Emails ‘pose threat to IQ’<\/a><\/p>\n

The distractions of constant emails, text and phone messages are a greater threat to IQ and concentration than taking cannabis, according to a survey of befuddled volunteers.<\/p>\n

<\/span>Doziness, lethargy and an increasing inability to focus reached “startling” levels in the trials by 1,100 people, who also demonstrated that emails in particular have an addictive, drug-like grip.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the whole thing. Maybe we can start to consider spammers not just nuisances, but public health threats?<\/p>\n

Jeff<\/a>, at least, has his priorities straight<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Farewell, dear readers. Bring on the cold winter air, a warm pipe, and dancing flames from a woodstove; a pretty wife curled up in a blanket; and the buzz of a chain saw on Saturday morning.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And here I was wondering if age was catching up with me — instead, it may be my Internet use (hat tip: Jeff Culbreath): Emails ‘pose threat to IQ’ The distractions of constant emails, text and phone messages are a greater threat to IQ and concentration than taking cannabis, according to a survey of befuddled […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-luddite"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2sZgq-2d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}