{"id":1506,"date":"2014-07-23T09:33:21","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T13:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/?p=1506"},"modified":"2014-07-23T09:33:21","modified_gmt":"2014-07-23T13:33:21","slug":"real-life-distracting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/2014\/07\/23\/real-life-distracting\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Life Is Distracting Me Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/files\/2014\/07\/life-computer-simulation.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1507\" alt=\"life-computer-simulation\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/files\/2014\/07\/life-computer-simulation-300x187.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/files\/2014\/07\/life-computer-simulation-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/files\/2014\/07\/life-computer-simulation.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Even though I am pretty open about my atheism to everyone except maybe the people at my part-time job, I still sometimes feel like I live two lives. I have one life with my wife, kids, family, and friends, and another life online. Well, real life is distracting me from my online life again.<\/p>\n<p>My online life is pretty much my blogging, social networking, and my many friends from far away who I have gotten to know virtually. I have been trying to make an effort to write on Skeptic Ink about every other day, but lately I have been slipping. I also try to write for Examiner about once a week, but I have been slipping there too.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the distractions have been online distractions in that I have been promoting the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00LRFK548\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B00LRFK548&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=dangtalk-20&amp;linkId=3YULWXCMZ5V2VFK6\" target=\"_blank\">Skeptic Ink book<\/a> and working slowly on one of my many solo book projects. Also, the <a href=\"http:\/\/unitedcor.org\/philly\/news\/phillycor-8th-annual-unity-picnic-2014\" target=\"_blank\">PhillyCoR Unity Picnic<\/a> is coming up and that has taken a great deal of planning on my part.<\/p>\n<p>Mostly though, it\u2019s the summer and the kids are running around and doing their best to drive me crazy. It seems that the more I am on the computer or the phone the crazier they act. So I have been spending less time on the computer and phone in order to save what little sanity I have left.<\/p>\n<p>So I apologize for the minimized content and I hope to get back to writing more posts on my various platforms soon. Thank you all in advance for your patience and your continued support.<\/p>\n<p>Does your real life distract you from your virtual life? 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I have one life with my wife, kids, family, and friends, and another life online. Well, real life is distracting me from my online life again. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[637,241],"tags":[38,55,1066,1055,161,892],"class_list":["post-1506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-personal","tag-atheism","tag-critical-thinking","tag-god","tag-religion","tag-skeptic-ink","tag-unity-picnic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1509,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506\/revisions\/1509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/dangeroustalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}