by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n
There are many forces in our culture that helps create workaholic people. Twitter joins the group.<\/strong><\/p>\n Twitter is cute, funny, silly, a waste of time, and many other things depending on who is telling you this or what you are doing at the time. Consider this one:<\/p>\n Twitter is yet another means of creating workaholics.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Ever hear that one? I haven’t. It hit me a couple of days ago as I was staring at Twitter waiting for it to update (seems to be much slower since that woman whose name starts with “O” joined a week or so ago).<\/p>\n Twitter’s subtitle is:<\/p>\n What are you doing?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n You have to be “doing” something to report it on Twitter. Do this, do that, do something, do…do…do<\/p>\n How about a site where you report how you are feeling? How about a site where you report how you are being?<\/p>\n The emphasis on “doing” often turns into “working.” If you aren’t doing or working all the time, then … well you are less of a person.<\/p>\n Please remember that resting is doing something. Playing with your grandson is doing something really important. Watching you kid run around in the park is doing something really important.<\/p>\n Put down the tweet machine (a.k.a. cellphone) and be<\/em><\/strong> a loving, caring person. That is enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips There are many forces in our culture that helps create workaholic people. Twitter joins the group. Twitter is cute, funny, silly, a waste of time, and many other things depending on who is telling you this or what you are doing at the time. Consider this one: Twitter is yet another means […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,10],"tags":[139,133],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-people","tag-culture","tag-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/98"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}