{"id":5720,"date":"2014-03-04T12:10:23","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T16:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/igrundun.wordpress.com\/?p=5720"},"modified":"2014-03-04T12:10:23","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T16:10:23","slug":"web-sabbatical-during-lent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/2014\/03\/04\/web-sabbatical-during-lent\/","title":{"rendered":"Web Sabbatical during Lent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I first took an extended web sabbatical from December 1, 2007 till January 24, 2008. Since then I have tried to log off for a month every year. More about my web sabbaticals can be found in Icelandic under <a title=\"sabbatical\" href=\"http:\/\/igrundun.wordpress.com\/tag\/sabbatical\/\">sabbatical on this web<\/a> and in a short article on <a title=\"Veffr\u00ed \u00e1 tr\u00fa.is\" href=\"http:\/\/tru.is\/pistlar\/2011\/03\/veffri\/\">tru.is<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This time I plan to take my yearly web sabbatical during lent. I will log off on March 5th and log on again on April 21st.<\/p>\n<p>I am a very active internet user, and I use the web to stay in contact with people on two continents and work on various tasks, that cannot [easily] be done without an internet connection. Therefore the decision to go on web sabbatical, does not mean that I will stay away from computers all together, but that I will purposefully reduce my computer usage and limit it to things that are essential.<\/p>\n<p>In the past I have made a list of things I will continue to do during my web sabbatical, mostly connected to work and\/our my studies. As I am at the moment a homemaker, the list will obviously be a lot shorter this time around.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My family uses iCal and Google Calendar for time management and Wunderlist for to-do lists. I will continue to use those during the web sabbatical.<\/li>\n<li>My family uses Hulu, Netflix, Amazon Instant Prime, ESPN360, and iTunes for TV watching. I am only going to watch TV with the family during the web sabbatical, not on my own.<\/li>\n<li>I will use Skype to stay in contact with my family in Iceland and I will read my e-mails on a regular basis. I will also have to use Facebook Messenger as it is the preferred way of communicating by many of the people I work with.<\/li>\n<li>I will continue to use the web for banking, and to order pizzas (I hate using the phone).<\/li>\n<li>I will also use a computer to register my kids at a summer camp and in relation to kids school activities.<\/li>\n<li>I am working on implementing a website for a multi-point parish in Iceland. I will continue that project.<\/li>\n<li>I am not going to use any social media, such as Youtube, Facebook (with the exception of Facebook Messenger for work), LinkedIn, Twitter, Google+, or Instagram during my web sabbatical.<\/li>\n<li>I will not play any computer games, either on a Wii, iPad, iPhone, or the computer.<\/li>\n<li>I am not going to read blogs and\/or news articles. I will not use my rss-feeder, I will not write blogs, comments, or answer comments on my blog during this time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>I will start my web sabbatical on March 5th at 6pm EST, and conclude it Monday morning, April 21st at 6am EST.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first took an extended web sabbatical from December 1, 2007 till January 24, 2008. Since then I have tried to log off for a month every year. More about my web sabbaticals can be found in Icelandic under sabbatical on this web and in a short article on tru.is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[33,63,91,126,132],"class_list":["post-5720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-communication","tag-family","tag-internet","tag-relationship","tag-sabbatical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}