{"id":39649,"date":"2013-08-20T15:45:23","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T15:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/sl_tribune_at_church_mormons_catholics_and_others_are_distracted_by_digital\/"},"modified":"2013-08-20T15:45:23","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T15:45:23","slug":"sl_tribune_at_church_mormons_catholics_and_others_are_distracted_by_digital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39649","title":{"rendered":"(SL Tribune) At church, Mormons, Catholics and others are distracted by digital devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tyler Woolstenhulme might be loath to admit it but sometimes he\u2019s not paying attention in church. He will happily confess that he\u2019s not the only one.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old Mormon has more than once sat in the pew of his Sandy ward and let his mind wander. When that happens, he pulls out his iPhone 4 and sometimes plays his puzzle game, &#8220;1to50.&#8221; Or maybe he texts his friends across the aisle.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I take the time in church to catch up with people I haven\u2019t contacted in a while,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I text friends or family.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/sltrib\/news\/56710560-78\/church-devices-lds-lake.html.csp\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tyler Woolstenhulme might be loath to admit it but sometimes he\u2019s not paying attention in church. He will happily confess that he\u2019s not the only one. The 31-year-old Mormon has more than once sat in the pew of his Sandy<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39649\">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":[48,39,433,94,183,184,95,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-social-networking","category-blogging-the-internet","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-parish-ministry","category-science-technology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39649","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=39649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}