{"id":573888647,"date":"2015-10-02T23:19:20","date_gmt":"2015-10-03T04:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573888647"},"modified":"2016-01-26T18:00:57","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T00:00:57","slug":"i-learned-a-new-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2015\/10\/02\/i-learned-a-new-word\/","title":{"rendered":"I learned a new word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is called &#8220;phubbing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/oct15\/oct01.jpg\" alt=\"phubbing\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>(And, yes this is a photo of poor quality. I was trying to be casual about capturing an image of three people at one table all on their phones.) <\/p>\n<p>It means you are snubbing others for your phone. I learned this word from one of our dinner friends. One of them also pointed out that I was doing the same thing by taking this picture. <\/p>\n<p>Phubbing, I think, is one of those words that will be hard to forget, one that will rush right to the top of your mind when you see it happening. <\/p>\n<p>Some of the latest Samford data:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/oct15\/oct02.jpg\" alt=\"stats\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I found that poster on a wall in the administration building while on my way to a meeting. Pretty impressive numbers when you think about it. <\/p>\n<p>Here are a few more numbers, but less impressive. This evening I got in a 21 mile bike ride. It was humid and overcast. It was 65 degrees. Almost chilly in the breeze. There&#8217;s probably a few more warm days ahead, and certainly a lot of pleasant ones. But this was the first day when the change of seasons became inevitable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is called &#8220;phubbing.&#8221; (And, yes this is a photo of poor quality. I was trying to be casual about capturing an image of three people at one table all on their phones.) It means you are snubbing others for your phone. I learned this word from one of our dinner friends. One of them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,14,10,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573888647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-friday","category-photo","category-samford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573888647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573888647"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573888647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573888651,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573888647\/revisions\/573888651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573888647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573888647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573888647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}