{"id":1413,"date":"2013-05-06T05:06:17","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T09:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/?p=1413"},"modified":"2013-05-02T05:23:16","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T09:23:16","slug":"summer-and-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/?p=1413","title":{"rendered":"Summer and Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kira Littlejohn &#8217;16<br \/>\n<em>EE <\/em>Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p>Summer vacation is when students all over the U.S are out from school. In the past, students commonly use the time to visit relatives and spend time with friends. It\u2019s the traditional summer known and loved, but has this traditional summer been lost to the hype of technology? Instead of going to a sandy beach or sharing a picnic with Grandma, many high school students will instead log onto Facebook. Technology is great, but a whole summer filled with it can make a teen lazy and gain weight. Should parents and teens be worried?<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Most people will be on their computers and cell phones during summer vacation. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes. Everyone\u2026I know. I will too. I admit it.\u201d Halley Shambra, THS freshman, confirmed. It is true that most students will be using technology this summer, but Shambra spends her summer doing other activities as well. In addition to technology, Shambra rides her bike down the hot sidewalk and dashes across the mounds of sand at the beaches she visits.<\/p>\n<p>Other Trumbull High School students are also going to enjoy a more traditional, more tech-free summer. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe go to Florida every year,\u201d said Jamie Malaterra, a THS freshman. <\/p>\n<p>In that Florida heat, Malaterra is sure to be busy swimming in pools and visiting friends. Face it, it is hard to just laze around in Florida where there are so many amusement parks and places to go.<\/p>\n<p>Many students may be playing video and computer games this summer, but it turns out not to be a big deal. Most students will balance out their gaming with sports activities and spending time with family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kira Littlejohn &#8217;16 EE Staff Writer Summer vacation is when students all over the U.S are out from school. In the past, students commonly use the time to visit relatives and spend&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1413"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1417,"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions\/1417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}