{"id":143,"date":"2025-06-09T10:55:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T10:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tinyleonard.co.uk\/?page_id=143"},"modified":"2025-06-09T10:56:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T10:56:24","slug":"technology-is-great-but","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tinyleonard.co.uk\/?page_id=143","title":{"rendered":"Technology is great but&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking about the last thing I wrote which was a while ago now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have always been leant on in local communities and the reasons have always been along the lines of &#8216;you&#8217;re a natural leader&#8217; and &#8216;you know how to get things done&#8217;. I have taken a further step in saying no.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have stopped paying the subscription on my doorbell which means it doesn&#8217;t record incidents it just lets me know what&#8217;s going on in real time. There are three other doorbells recording incidents in a very small area so the community doesn&#8217;t need any recordings I may have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shortly it will disappearing off my front door all together as I am going back to using an old fashioned door knocker &#8211; shaped like a fox head no less!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Technology is great but when people become over reliant on someone else&#8217;s it&#8217;s time to ditch it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking about the last thing I wrote which was a while ago now. I have always been leant on in local communities and the reasons have always been along the lines of &#8216;you&#8217;re a natural leader&#8217; and &#8216;you know how to get things done&#8217;. I have taken a further step in saying no. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":65,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-143","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tinyleonard.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tinyleonard.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tinyleonard.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tinyleonard.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tinyleonard.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tinyleonard.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":144,"href":"https:\/\/tinyleonard.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/143\/revisions\/144"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tinyleonard.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tinyleonard.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}