{"id":563161,"date":"2026-05-02T23:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T23:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/563161\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T23:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T23:27:09","slug":"bricked-why-blocking-my-apps-has-made-me-feel-alive-again-the-canberra-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/563161\/","title":{"rendered":"Bricked: Why blocking my apps has made me feel alive again | The Canberra Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_wrapper__6w7GG\">I&#8217;ve even gone so far as to delete Facebook from my phone altogether, and on the occasions when I need it for work (it does help in this job to be vaguely connected to the wider community), I can log in on my laptop. The laptop, after all, doesn&#8217;t live in my bag or pocket. Like an opportunistic thief, a low, annoying wall can be as much of a deterrent as a high one. Same goes for the apps; I&#8217;m not about to put down everything and find a computer to log in to just to check on the latest viral discourse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve even gone so far as to delete Facebook from my phone altogether, and on the occasions when&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2306,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-563161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-mobile","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}