{"id":172,"date":"2014-12-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/back-to-values.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/12\/16\/a-simpler-life-next-year\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T22:10:09","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T21:10:09","slug":"a-simpler-life-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/back-to-values.co.uk\/index.php\/2014\/12\/16\/a-simpler-life-next-year\/","title":{"rendered":"A SIMPLER LIFE NEXT YEAR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been suggested that next year 2015\u201a we are all going to strive for a simpler lifestyle\u201a without as many gadgets in our life. As someone who remembers starting work with no computers and mobile phones\u201a I absolutely love this very notion. Life was a lot more pleasurable when you could enjoy peoples conversation and integration with people was the norm. The very concept of big brother was not in place then\u201a google was not invented\u201a and no one was tracking you by mobile phone. I believe we all yearn for the good old days\u201a those of us who were around then. I guess also\u201a as I relate my stories to the younger folk\u201a they must think it was a poorer carry on then back then. To sum up we had a structure and fabric to our society with traditions and values\u201a and you all strived\u201a knowing for most of us who worked hard\u201a that rewards would be found\u201a a motorbike or a car\u201a a home and a pension. What price do the young have now to look forward to. Let&#8217;s get back to the good old days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been suggested that next year 2015\u201a we are all going to strive for a simpler lifestyle\u201a without as many gadgets in our life. As someone who remembers starting work with no computers and mobile phones\u201a I absolutely love this very notion. Life was a lot more pleasurable when you could enjoy peoples conversation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/back-to-values.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/back-to-values.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/back-to-values.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/back-to-values.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/back-to-values.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/back-to-values.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":988,"href":"https:\/\/back-to-values.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions\/988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/back-to-values.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/back-to-values.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/back-to-values.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}