{"id":688331,"date":"2026-06-06T17:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T17:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/688331\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T17:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T17:54:07","slug":"3-ways-to-spend-less-time-on-your-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/688331\/","title":{"rendered":"3 ways to spend less time on your phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"4I2Q2DJCSVCZJIG7XNFEDDDY6Y\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">I first realized my phone had become a problem when my dreams began mimicking the endless scroll of Instagram Reels. I thought deleting the app might be the solution, but instead I traded my social media habit for doomscrolling the news, which left me too depressed and anxious to fall asleep. So I tried something else: I bought an alarm clock for my bedside and started leaving my phone in the kitchen overnight. But after a week or so, it was back in my room \u2014 a source of mindless comfort after a few tiring days at work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I first realized my phone had become a problem when my dreams began mimicking the endless scroll of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":688332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[165,74],"class_list":["post-688331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-mobile","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/688332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}