{"id":8621,"date":"2024-12-17T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=8621"},"modified":"2024-11-29T15:00:22","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T20:00:22","slug":"the-value-of-relaxed-alertness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/the-value-of-relaxed-alertness\/","title":{"rendered":"THE VALUE OF RELAXED ALERTNESS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My friend Greg Ellifretz recently reminded me of <a href=\"https:\/\/athlonoutdoors.com\/article\/staying-alert-and-aware\/#using-your-peripherals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">this article<\/a> I wrote a decade ago. I think it\u2019s still valid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Notice the photos. There\u2019s no reason to be casting your eyes downward to your smartphone when you can just hold it up in front of your face and retain your scan of what\u2019s around you while you\u2019re reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Greg Ellifretz recently reminded me of this article I wrote a decade ago. I think it\u2019s still valid. Notice the photos. There\u2019s no reason to be casting your eyes downward to your smartphone when you can just hold it up in front of your face and retain your scan of what\u2019s around you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8621","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8621"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8624,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8621\/revisions\/8624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}