{"id":11963,"date":"2012-06-12T14:35:52","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T21:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=11963"},"modified":"2015-03-19T15:32:04","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T22:32:04","slug":"the-mobile-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2012\/06\/12\/the-mobile-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mobile Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

I saw someone post this on Facebook and thought it was simply brilliant:<\/p>\n

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Everyone puts their phones in the middle of the table. Whoever cracks first by touching their phone, pays for the entire meal.<\/span><\/p>\n

The purpose of the game was to get everyone off their phones, away from twitter, facebook, texting, etc and to encourage conversations. In other words, help cure the “Anti-Social Social Media Craziness”.\u00a0<\/span>Here are the rules:<\/p>\n

1. The game starts after everyone sits down.<\/span><\/p>\n

2. Everybody places their phone in the middle of the table.<\/span><\/p>\n

3. The first person to touch their phone loses the game.<\/span><\/p>\n

4. Loser of the game pays the bill for everyone’s meal.<\/span><\/p>\n

5. If the bill comes before anyone has touched their phone, everybody is declared a winner and pays for their own meal.<\/span><\/p>\n

Are You Game?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I saw someone post this on Facebook and thought it was simply brilliant: Everyone puts their phones in the middle of the table. Whoever cracks first by touching their phone, pays for the entire meal. The purpose of the game was to get everyone off their phones, away from twitter, facebook, texting, etc and to encourage conversations. In other words,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[1198,62,2969,255,1197,1202,3263,1200,1199,270],"class_list":["post-11963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith","tag-cell","tag-facebook","tag-featured","tag-food","tag-mobile","tag-restaurant","tag-social-media","tag-social-networking","tag-texting","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11963"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56504,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11963\/revisions\/56504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}