{"id":222924,"date":"2025-10-18T19:42:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T19:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/222924\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T19:42:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T19:42:13","slug":"how-long-could-you-go-without-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/222924\/","title":{"rendered":"How long could you go without internet?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">How long could you go without access to the internet? No Youtube, no online gaming, no streaming, and no Newsround articles! <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For one Island in Scotland, Tiree, this is reality after the fibre cable connecting the island to the mainland was damaged during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsround\/articles\/c8d72yee536o\" class=\"ssrcss-jx182a-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Storm Amy earlier this month.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Whilst they now have a temporary system in place for essential services like doctors and the post office, BBC Scotland News says that the island community have been asked to avoid making video calls or use online streaming in case it brings down the broadband services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Maybe you&#8217;ve had to spend time been in an internet-free world when you&#8217;ve been on holiday or in a remote area with no data on your devices? <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Could you cope? What would you spend your time doing instead? What problems might it cause? Let us in the comments know down below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How long could you go without access to the internet? No Youtube, no online gaming, no streaming, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[49,48,244,61],"class_list":["post-222924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-internet","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-internet","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}