{"id":51,"date":"2006-07-02T15:57:24","date_gmt":"2006-07-02T15:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/?p=51"},"modified":"2006-07-03T21:03:14","modified_gmt":"2006-07-03T21:03:14","slug":"to-beat-an-addiction-first-you-must-admit-that-you-are-addicted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/life\/2006\/07\/to-beat-an-addiction-first-you-must-admit-that-you-are-addicted\/","title":{"rendered":"To beat an addiction, first you must admit that you are addicted."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Early last week, whilst repairing some elses phone connection, a BT engineer shut the line that leads to my house in the door of the junction box only a few hundred metres from my door. Instantly we lost internet and phone access. For an internet-addicted geek like me that was traumatic. No more blog-reading. No more working on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/\">DWARF<\/a>. Did I go out and play in the sunshine for a few days? Nope. I started playing a (free) computer game: <a title=\"BFW Homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wesnoth.org\/\">Battle for Wesnoth<\/a>. Gah! Even now my internet is back, it&#8217;s still sucking up huge amounts of my time.<\/p>\n<p>If someone asked me. &#8220;Do you spend much time playing computer games?&#8221;. I&#8217;d usually say no, but it&#8217;s very sporadic. I don&#8217;t play anything for a few months then for one reason or another I start and that&#8217;s it &#8211; no free time for a week or two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early last week, whilst repairing some elses phone connection, a BT engineer shut the line that leads to my house in the door of the junction box only a few hundred metres from my door. Instantly we lost internet and phone access. For an internet-addicted geek like me that was traumatic. No more blog-reading. No [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coralbark.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}