{"id":27495,"date":"2011-07-27T16:37:36","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T16:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ap_some_owners_so_obsessed_with_their_smartphones_they_name_them\/"},"modified":"2011-07-27T16:37:36","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T16:37:36","slug":"ap_some_owners_so_obsessed_with_their_smartphones_they_name_them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27495","title":{"rendered":"(AP) Some owners so obsessed with their smartphones, they name them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While smartphone users worry about mobile hacking and other security threats that are making news these days, psychologists and others are concerned about another equally troubling issue &#8212; the growing obsession among people who would much rather interact with their smartphones than with other human beings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Watching people who get their first smartphone, there&#8217;s a very quick progression from having a basic phone you don&#8217;t talk about to people who love their iPhone, name their phone and buy their phones outfits,&#8221; said Lisa Merlo, director of psychotherapy training at the University of Florida.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/news\/2011\/jul\/27\/id-like-you-to-meet-my-iphone\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While smartphone users worry about mobile hacking and other security threats that are making news these days, psychologists and others are concerned about another equally troubling issue &#8212; the growing obsession among people who would much rather interact with their<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27495\">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":[39,129,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-psychology","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27495","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=27495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}