{"id":576,"date":"2026-01-08T05:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T05:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/01\/08\/these-college-students-ditched-their-phones-for-a-week-could-you-the-new-york-times\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T05:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T05:56:08","slug":"these-college-students-ditched-their-phones-for-a-week-could-you-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/01\/08\/these-college-students-ditched-their-phones-for-a-week-could-you-the-new-york-times\/","title":{"rendered":"These College Students Ditched Their Phones for a Week. Could You? &#8211; The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>By midweek, students said they felt more immersed in the world around them. They met up to hand-write letters to family members and discuss \u201cSelf-Reliance,\u201d the poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson. (\u201cOh what is Heaven but the fellowship \/ Of minds that each can stand against the world \/ By its own meek and incorruptible will?\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>They could not text one another to say they were running late; they had to make plans in person and actually show up for them. Sometimes they found themselves reaching for their pockets reflexively, as if a phantom iPhone might still be there.<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/01\/03\/style\/smartphone-tech-fast-college-students.html?unlocked_article_code=1.CFA.cBCi.B1XaVR2-4-Pc\">www.nytimes.com\/2026\/01\/03\/style\/smartphone-tech-fast-college-students.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By midweek, students said they felt more immersed in the world around them. They met up to hand-write letters to family members and discuss \u201cSelf-Reliance,\u201d the poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson. (\u201cOh what is Heaven but the fellowship \/ Of minds that each can stand against the world \/ By its own meek and incorruptible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,7,21,38,65],"class_list":["post-576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-attention","tag-consciousness","tag-smartphones","tag-society","tag-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}