{"id":1730,"date":"2016-05-27T12:27:41","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T16:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/?p=1730"},"modified":"2016-05-27T12:27:41","modified_gmt":"2016-05-27T16:27:41","slug":"wake-up-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/2016\/05\/wake-up-call\/","title":{"rendered":"Wake Up Call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">So on the first Thursday of the trip, I experienced the beautiful world of Romania with no cell phone. I had unfortunately dropped it in the toilet in the Open Fields office. It totally submerged, and I had it off all day. I was devastated, knowing I may not could use it the rest of the trip. I had to take a walk to calm down and get my thoughts together. I had a pep talk with myself, saying if that&#8217;s the worst thing that happens to anyone on the whole trip then I will be fine. But as I reflect on that day&#8230; It seems pretty pitiful. I had to have a pep talk with myself? To say everything will be okay because I couldn&#8217;t use my phone? What has the world come to where I was so worried about not being able to use my phone that I had to gather myself? Fortunately, I learned that I was actually okay without my phone. Sure I would have loved to listen to music on the bus ride or take pictures of the awesome salt mine, but I ended up being fine&#8230;.. Shocking, I know. I couldn&#8217;t imagine people who are glued to their phone 24\/7 being without it in another country. Then I started to wonder&#8230; Why do I care so much about my phone? What is SO important on it that I can&#8217;t live without? I can&#8217;t think of anything that could be that important, other than contacting my family. All the social media and emails and pictures&#8230; They&#8217;re unimportant. What I realized is what truly matters: experiencing the trip of a lifetime. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So on the first Thursday of the trip, I experienced the beautiful world of Romania with no cell phone. I had unfortunately dropped it in the toilet in the Open Fields office. It totally submerged, and I had it off all day. I was devastated, knowing I may not could use it the rest of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":256,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,35,23,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-faculty-led","category-maymester","category-romania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/256"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1731,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730\/revisions\/1731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.caes.uga.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}