{"id":3122,"date":"2013-06-08T12:44:25","date_gmt":"2013-06-08T12:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/?p=3122"},"modified":"2013-06-08T12:44:25","modified_gmt":"2013-06-08T12:44:25","slug":"plugged-or-unplugged-that-is-the-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/?p=3122","title":{"rendered":"Plugged or unplugged …that is the question"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, email, text, what’s app… the list goes on. \u00a0How connected are you when you travel? How integrated is your smart phone to your travel experience? We all “check in” to share the pictures and details of our latest travel destination with our friends and family. The food, the drinks, the sites, and the streets all make lovely pictures to post to have our friends “like” and “comment” on. \u00a0Social media is real time and allows the ones who stayed “local” to walk with us each step of our travels almost like they were with us. \u00a0It has replaced the old time 2 hour slide show of the vacation pictures that no one wanted to see.<\/p>\n

Wifi is a travelers best friend and I have personally found myself anxious if I can’t get a connection. \u00a0There is a feeling of success when you look at your travel mate and declare “hot spot”. \u00a0 Which is interesting because many people travel to escape, how did as a society we become so addicted to being connected to home when we actually wanted a break from our day to day lives? Food for thought!!<\/p>\n

When you travel do you “check in”?<\/b><\/p>\n

Ps …Do I manage my smartphone or does it manage me?<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, email, text, what’s app… the list goes on. \u00a0How connected are you when you travel? How integrated is your smart phone to your travel experience? We all “check in” to share the pictures and details of our latest travel destination with our friends and family. The food, the drinks, [&hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":3123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1054],"tags":[988,180,1052,1053],"class_list":["post-3122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-social","tag-lisa","tag-technology","tag-travel-apps","tag-travel-social"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3122"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3125,"href":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122\/revisions\/3125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ididgo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}