{"id":2912,"date":"2013-10-01T16:42:10","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T15:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/?p=2912"},"modified":"2013-10-01T16:42:10","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T15:42:10","slug":"please-turn-off-all-digital-devices-the-rest-of-the-week-in-travel-and-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/please-turn-off-all-digital-devices-the-rest-of-the-week-in-travel-and-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Please Turn off All Digital Devices &#038; the Rest of the Week in Travel and Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I board the plane, I open up my iPad and I start reading a book. Fifteen minutes later the crew tells us to turn off all electronic devices. So I stop reading. But then I\u2019m bored and start flipping through Skymall, which is not the most productive use of time writes John Miller of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthytravelblog.com\/2013\/09\/27\/please-turn-off-all-digital-devices-the-rest-of-the-week-in-travel-and-health\/\">healthytravelblog.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Twenty to thirty minutes later, we\u2019re told we can turn on our devices again, and I return to reading, somewhat perturbed that I am forced to endure literarus interruptus. I know \u2013 first world problems, right? But we all know that flying can be inconvenient, and this is just another inconvenience.<\/p>\n<p>However, there\u2019s good news. The New York Times\u2019 Jad Mouwad and Nick Bilton report that <a title=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/09\/23\/technology\/faa-nears-new-rules-on-devices.html?_r=0\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/09\/23\/technology\/faa-nears-new-rules-on-devices.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">the Federal Aviation Administration is considering easing those restrictions<\/a> on reading eBooks, watching videos and listening to podcasts. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthytravelblog.com\/2013\/09\/27\/please-turn-off-all-digital-devices-the-rest-of-the-week-in-travel-and-health\/\">Read More &gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I board the plane, I open up my iPad and I start reading a book. Fifteen minutes later the crew tells us to turn off all electronic devices. So I stop reading. But then I\u2019m bored and start flipping through Skymall, which is not the most productive use of time writes John Miller of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/please-turn-off-all-digital-devices-the-rest-of-the-week-in-travel-and-health\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Please Turn off All Digital Devices &#038; the Rest of the Week in Travel and Health<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,24,6,30,23,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alc-health-news","category-alc-international-health-insurance-news","category-alc-travel-news","category-expat-alert","category-expat-global-health-news","category-global-health-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alchealth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}