{"id":10829,"date":"2009-01-21T17:30:58","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T17:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/the_toxic_web_generation_children_spend_six_hours_a_day_in_front_of_screens\/"},"modified":"2009-01-21T17:30:58","modified_gmt":"2009-01-21T17:30:58","slug":"the_toxic_web_generation_children_spend_six_hours_a_day_in_front_of_screens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10829","title":{"rendered":"The &#39;Toxic&#39; Web generation: Children spend six hours a day in front of screens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Youngsters are shunning books and outdoor games to spend up to six hours a day in front of a screen, a survey has revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Children as young as five are turning their bedrooms into multi-media &#8216;hubs&#8217; with TVs, computers, games consoles, MP3 players and mobile phones all within easy reach.<\/p>\n<p>The trend triggered warnings that the next generation will struggle to compete in the adult world because they lack reading and writing skills.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1122225\/The-toxic-Web-generation-Children-spend-hours-day-screens.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Youngsters are shunning books and outdoor games to spend up to six hours a day in front of a screen, a survey has revealed. Children as young as five are turning their bedrooms into multi-media &#8216;hubs&#8217; with TVs, computers, games<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10829\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,94,101,199,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-blogging-the-internet","category-children","category-england-uk","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}