{"id":828348,"date":"2025-02-20T08:11:45","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T14:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/20\/londoners-are-paying-12-for-the-chance-to-switch-off-their-phones-and-connect-with-the-real-world\/"},"modified":"2025-02-20T08:11:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T14:11:45","slug":"londoners-are-paying-12-for-the-chance-to-switch-off-their-phones-and-connect-with-the-real-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/20\/londoners-are-paying-12-for-the-chance-to-switch-off-their-phones-and-connect-with-the-real-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Londoners are paying $12 for the chance to switch off their phones and \u2018connect with the real world\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-cy=\"article-wrapper\" id=\"content\" role=\"article\">\n<p><img alt=\"According to the U.K.\u2019s telecoms regulator Ofcom, young Brits aged between 25 and 34 spend an average of four hours and three minutes a day glued to their smartphones.\" fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\"   src=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/GettyImages-2166088870-e1740039935661.jpg?w=1440&#038;q=75\"><\/p>\n<p>According to the U.K.\u2019s telecoms regulator Ofcom, young Brits aged between 25 and 34 spend an average of four hours and three minutes a day glued to their smartphones.<\/p>\n<p>HENRY NICHOLLS\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/europe\/2025\/02\/20\/londoners-pay-for-chance-to-switch-off-their-phones-connect-with-real-world-gen-z-digital-detox\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Caroline Taix, AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the U.K.\u2019s telecoms regulator Ofcom, young Brits aged between 25 and 34 spend an average of four hours and three minutes a day glued to their smartphones. HENRY NICHOLLS\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":828349,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98076,2015],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-828348","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-londoners","8":"category-paying"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/828349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}