{"id":1081,"date":"2015-01-14T19:13:23","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T19:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=1081"},"modified":"2015-01-14T19:13:23","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T19:13:23","slug":"recently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/?p=1081","title":{"rendered":"Recently"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>-I&#8217;m not exactly technophobic; I guess I&#8217;d be more accurately described as techno-churlish. So it was a surprise to me when I realized that having Scrabble on my iPhone has improved my life greatly. I decided to spend three weeks using apps to try to improve my life in other ways  , too: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/01\/04\/style\/what-isnt-there-an-app-for.html?_r=0\">here&#8217;s the story<\/a> that ran in the New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>-In light of the Sony phone hacks, People magazine asked me to weigh in on the topic of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.people.com\/article\/etiquette-expert-henry-alford-apology-offensive-email-scott-rudin-amy-pascal\">apologizing to someone you&#8217;ve offended<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>-Thanks to the munificence of Travel and Leisure magazine, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelandleisure.com\/travel-blog\/carry-on\/2014\/12\/31\/learning-the-ways-of-the-laotian-mahouts\">I got to ride, herd, and wash elephants in Laos<\/a>: never has my day-job been so thrillingly adorable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>-I&#8217;m not exactly technophobic; I guess I&#8217;d be more accurately described as techno-churlish. So it was a surprise to me when I realized that having Scrabble on my iPhone has improved my life greatly. I decided to spend three weeks using apps to try to improve my life in other ways , too: here&#8217;s the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1082,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions\/1082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henryalford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}