{"id":106,"date":"2006-08-21T18:12:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-21T18:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theworldatlarge.net\/wp\/?p=106"},"modified":"2006-08-21T18:12:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-21T18:12:00","slug":"attachments-to-material-objects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldatlarge.net\/wp\/?p=106","title":{"rendered":"Attachments to material objects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now I&#8217;m not one to get too attached to material objects.  I guess I learned that lesson after my car was stolen with many treasured items in the boot (long story .. nothing was on show .. but I lost a lot).<\/p>\n<p>Recently I got my mitts on a new Nokia N93 and I was amazed.. I wouldn&#8217;t go so far as saying I loved it but it did sleep beside my bed each night.  Imagine my pain when I was told by the network provider that in order to port my existing number across, I had to send the phone back, cancel my contract and order it again (where&#8217;s the logic in that?!).  This wasn&#8217;t going to be too much trouble, only, since i bought the phone, it went up \u00a370!  To cut a long story short, the nice people at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobileshop.com\" target=\"_new\">mobileshop.com<\/a> were happy to sell me another phone at the price I originally paid.  Thanks MobileShop &#8211; you guys are brilliant.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not the material possession that I am attached to, but rather the creativity and connectivity this phone allows.  It&#8217;s truly a marvellous smartphone!  Some might say it&#8217;s a bit big, and a bit heavy and I would agree &#8211; but whilst it&#8217;s big, it&#8217;s also very clever.<\/p>\n<p>I have to wait patiently now whilst the next one gets delivered &#8211; I do hope it makes it here before the weekend.  I am hoping to start getting some new photos and videos on this site.<\/p>\n<p>See the Nokia N93 here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nokia.com\/n93\" target=\"_new\">www.nokia.com\/n93<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now I&#8217;m not one to get too attached to material objects. I guess I learned that lesson after my car was stolen with many treasured items in the boot (long story .. nothing was on show .. but I lost &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theworldatlarge.net\/wp\/?p=106\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailylife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldatlarge.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldatlarge.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldatlarge.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldatlarge.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldatlarge.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldatlarge.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldatlarge.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldatlarge.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldatlarge.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}