{"id":15048,"date":"2017-06-17T09:18:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-17T13:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2017\/06\/17\/faceless\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:50:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:50:33","slug":"faceless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2017\/06\/17\/faceless\/","title":{"rendered":"Faceless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1562\/20170617111215-facebook-w600-h800.jpg.webp\" alt=\"Facebook account deactivation\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Ahhh.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>There are so many people I love on Facebook, but the thing really is a drug: You don&#8217;t mean to use it, or to use it to excess, but it&#8217;s right there to binge on, and everyone thinks it&#8217;s no big deal. Plus willpower is, I believe, largely an illusion and mostly the result of ingrained habit.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ve removed the possibility of habituated, mindless social media use by leaving Facebook and Twitter.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>My reasoning was that I want more time for making things, but it&#8217;s tough to muster the energy, overcome the fear, and find the time to do creative work after attending to everything else.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>That said, life is pretty sweet these days. On my visits to Charlottetown last summer I kept thinking, &#8220;I wish I could just stay here.&#8221; And now here I am.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Every time I walk down a tree-lined street, spend time with my family, walk by a location from my past, or venture into nature&#8230; it&#8217;s <em>nice<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nice&#8221; gets a bad rap, like life is supposed to be &#8212; I dunno, gritty, dangerous, on-the-edge, but I really like nice.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahhh. There are so many people I love on Facebook, but the thing really is a drug: You don&#8217;t mean to use it, or to use it to excess, but it&#8217;s right there to binge on, and everyone thinks it&#8217;s no big deal. Plus willpower is, I believe, largely an illusion and mostly the result [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}