{"id":787,"date":"2008-05-25T10:38:47","date_gmt":"2008-05-25T20:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/?p=787"},"modified":"2008-05-25T10:38:47","modified_gmt":"2008-05-25T20:38:47","slug":"alton-towers-theme-park-pdas-banished-to-oblivion-this-half-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/25\/alton-towers-theme-park-pdas-banished-to-oblivion-this-half-term\/","title":{"rendered":"Alton Towers Theme Park: PDA&#8217;s Banished To Oblivion This Half Term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/altontowers-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Alton Towers theme park bans pdas and phones\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-788\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/altontowers-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/altontowers.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nJust read about this on <a href=\"http:\/\/hardware.slashdot.org\/hardware\/08\/05\/25\/1726257.shtml\">Slashdot<\/a> and went to see the site myself&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.altontowers.com\/pages\/pda\">PDA&#8217;s Banished To Oblivion This Half Term<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While I can appreciate the reason for the apparently opt-in ban, it doesn&#8217;t make sense to me. I think it is a good idea for kids and parents to all carry phones to keep in contact when separated (either by design or accident). I also use my phone&#8217;s camera a lot. We&#8217;ve always had fun at theme parks with phone, digital camera, GPS, and all kinds of other e-gear that have actually enhanced the experience IMHO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just read about this on Slashdot and went to see the site myself&#8230; PDA&#8217;s Banished To Oblivion This Half Term While I can appreciate the reason for the apparently opt-in ban, it doesn&#8217;t make sense to me. I think it is a good idea for kids and parents to all carry phones to keep in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-devices","category-mobile-phones","category-pda"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppKRG-cH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mobileviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}