{"id":1702,"date":"2010-09-03T10:17:34","date_gmt":"2010-09-03T14:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=1702"},"modified":"2010-09-03T10:17:34","modified_gmt":"2010-09-03T14:17:34","slug":"sign-off-facebook-and-stop-texting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2010\/09\/sign-off-facebook-and-stop-texting","title":{"rendered":"Sign Off Facebook and Stop Texting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1705\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"chester-burton\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/chester-burton.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" \/>With the ringing of the bell signalling a new school year, Father  Chester Burton, Rector at St. Peter&#8217;s Parish, North Long Island,  encouraged the school-aged children at St. Peter&#8217;s  to sign off  Facebook, discontinue texting with their cell phone, and focus on  picking up their text books, and doing homework on time and not in the  morning before school commences, during his Sunday sermon.<\/p>\n<p>He told the members of his new Anglican parish that if they heed his  advice, they will do well. Father Burton used the 100 percent passes in  Religious Studies he received from the graduating class of Arthur&#8217;s Town  High School on Cat Island where he was posted before moving to Long  Island as an example. He said they listened and heeded his advice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long Island pastor advises school-aged children to sign off Facebook, discontinue texting with their cell phone, and crack the books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[21,59],"class_list":["post-1702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-educational","tag-islands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}