{"id":4572,"date":"2020-06-30T00:21:36","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T22:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/?p=4572"},"modified":"2020-06-30T00:21:36","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T22:21:36","slug":"notes-from-a-tech-free-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2020\/06\/notes-from-a-tech-free-life.html","title":{"rendered":"Notes from a Tech-Free Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"small-caps\">&#8220;Around eleven p.m.<\/span> the night before the winter solstice of 2016 I unplugged my laptop and turned off my phone for what I hoped would be forever. I had just put the finishing touches to a straw-bale cabin that I\u2019d spent the summer building on the three-acre, half-wild smallholding where I live. The following morning I intended to begin a new life without modern technology. There would be no running water, no fossil fuels, no clock, no electricity or any of the things it powers: no washing machine, internet, phone, radio, or light bulb.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read more:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plough.com\/en\/topics\/justice\/environment\/not-so-simple\">Not So Simple. Notes from a Tech-Free Life<\/a>, Mark Boyle. Plough Quarterly Magazine, July 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Around eleven p.m. the night before the winter solstice of 2016 I unplugged my laptop and turned off my phone for what I hoped would be forever. I had just put the finishing touches to a straw-bale cabin that I\u2019d spent the summer building on the three-acre, half-wild smallholding where I live. The following morning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4572"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4573,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4572\/revisions\/4573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}