{"id":162,"date":"2026-02-04T19:20:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T19:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tinyleonard.co.uk\/?page_id=162"},"modified":"2026-02-04T19:21:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T19:21:30","slug":"waving-goodbye-to-useless-things","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tinyleonard.co.uk\/?page_id=162","title":{"rendered":"Waving goodbye to useless things"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>First of all I waved goodbye to some of my social media and today only two sites remain. One that is for family and one that is for photographs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today I chose to give an old iPad away as it was taking up most of my life. Four or five hours a day playing mindless games that force the player into spending money they haven&#8217;t necessarily got to achieve levels of nothingness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This afternoon I&#8217;ve made soup, the dog has had a long walk as the weather has been mild and I&#8217;ll eat properly tonight. I&#8217;m reclaiming my time.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/tinyleonard.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_0532.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-163\" style=\"width:250px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tinyleonard.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_0532.jpeg 480w, https:\/\/tinyleonard.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_0532-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/tinyleonard.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/IMG_0532-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>I won&#8217;t get rid of my smart phone or my laptop because they&#8217;re actually useful and I can&#8217;t live without the music that&#8217;s stored on them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have been using technology since before Windows 95, I&#8217;ve seen many changes and I&#8217;ve decided that sometimes the best change is backing off from them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First of all I waved goodbye to some of my social media and today only two sites remain. One that is for family and one that is for photographs. Today I chose to give an old iPad away as it was taking up most of my life. Four or five hours a day playing mindless [&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-162","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tinyleonard.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/162","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=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tinyleonard.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164,"href":"https:\/\/tinyleonard.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/162\/revisions\/164"}],"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=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}