{"id":60086,"date":"2017-05-20T09:30:46","date_gmt":"2017-05-20T13:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=60086"},"modified":"2017-05-20T12:58:35","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T16:58:35","slug":"abc-digital-addiction-michigan-teen-who-skipped-school-to-play-video-games-goes-through-treatment-in-the-wilderness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=60086","title":{"rendered":"(ABC) Digital addiction? Michigan teen who skipped school to play video games goes through treatment in the wilderness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By the time Al and Christine\u2019s son Josh was 14 years old, he was so consumed with playing video games that he stopped going to school.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He just said, &#8216;Hey, I\u2019m dropping out,'&#8221; his father Al told ABC News &#8220;20\/20.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Josh would stay up late to play well into the night and sleep in late the next day. His mother said he would often play for as many as 12 hours straight, for as much as 60 hours in a week. They tried to talk to him, Al said, but made little progress.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s like, &#8216;You\u2019ve got to stop &#8230; you&#8217;ve got to close it down,'&#8221; Al said. But he said his son replied, &#8220;I can&#8217;t.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/michigan-teen-dropped-school-play-video-games-treatment\/story?id=47491016\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By the time Al and Christine\u2019s son Josh was 14 years old, he was so consumed with playing video games that he stopped going to school. &#8220;He just said, &#8216;Hey, I\u2019m dropping out,&#8217;&#8221; his father Al told ABC News &#8220;20\/20.&#8221;<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=60086\">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":[175,101,121,168,104,98,129,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-children","category-entertainment","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-marriage-family","category-psychology","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60086","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=60086"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60088,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60086\/revisions\/60088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}