{"id":488,"date":"2012-07-19T11:21:10","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T16:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/?p=488"},"modified":"2012-07-27T11:26:49","modified_gmt":"2012-07-27T16:26:49","slug":"wristwatches-is-it-time-to-disband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=488","title":{"rendered":"Wristwatches: Is it time to disband?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 194px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/electronics.howstuffworks.com\/gadgets\/clocks-watches\/why-dont-we-wear-wristwatches.htm\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Wristwatches\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/c\/ca\/Armbandsur-1.jpg\" alt=\"Wristwatches at a store in London\" width=\"194\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image courtesy David Castor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Every few years, someone writes an article about how kids today don\u2019t know what a rotary phone is, or have never heard of a cassette tape, or are losing the ability to spell or write cursive. I still remember, years ago, when one study revealed that not only did today\u2019s youth not know how to wind a watch \u2013 they didn\u2019t know what the phrase meant.<\/p>\n<p>As someone who was required to be able to understand references to technology, art and entertainment dating back to my grandmother\u2019s time, I take these articles with a grain of salt. That includes the recent spate of pieces in blogs and news outlets declaring the death of the wristwatch. Sure, we all have cellphone, and there are as many clocks in my kitchen as appliances, but \u2013 as I point out in this misleadingly named article \u2013 the watch has yet to tick its last tock.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/electronics.howstuffworks.com\/gadgets\/clocks-watches\/why-dont-we-wear-wristwatches.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Why don&#8217;t we wear wristwatches anymore?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every few years, someone writes an article about how kids today don\u2019t know what a rotary phone is, or have never heard of a cassette tape, or are losing the ability to spell or write cursive. I still remember, years ago, when one study revealed that not only did today\u2019s youth not know how to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/?p=488\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wristwatches: Is it time to disband?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,94,46,4,13],"tags":[24,145,360,359],"class_list":["post-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer","category-culture","category-engineering","category-gadgets","category-history","category-technology","tag-behavior","tag-smartphones","tag-wealth","tag-wristwatch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":493,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions\/493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicholasgerbis.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}