{"id":2391,"date":"2010-01-15T08:24:04","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T12:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=2391"},"modified":"2010-01-15T10:28:02","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T14:28:02","slug":"among-its-other-cool-features-the-iphone-can-help-you-survive-in-the-wilderness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/01\/15\/among-its-other-cool-features-the-iphone-can-help-you-survive-in-the-wilderness\/","title":{"rendered":"Among it&#8217;s other cool features, the iPhone can help you survive in the wilderness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/underwire\/2010\/01\/alt-text-wilderness-survival-iphone\" target=\"_blank\">sort of<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>If you scan the list of top iPhone apps, you might be forgiven for thinking that the device, like adolescence, is mostly for playing videogames, making rude noises and connecting to Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>However, a more thorough examination of the digital delectables on offer in the app store will reveal that, far from being merely a plaything that receives phone calls &mdash; as long as you don\u2019t live in rural Montana or my neighborhood &mdash; the iPhone is actually a hard-core survival tool.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine that you\u2019re stranded on your stock desert island, charged with surviving until the Globetrotters, your superiors at FedEx or the Smoke Monster finds you. And suppose that, for some reason, this island is equipped with a USB port for charging.<\/p>\n<p>Well, then, as long as you have your trusty iPhone, you needn\u2019t fear hypothermia, malaria or starvation. You just need the right apps. Let\u2019s take a look, shall we?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, sort of: If you scan the list of top iPhone apps, you might be forgiven for thinking that the device, like adolescence, is mostly for playing videogames, making rude noises and connecting to Facebook. However, a more thorough examination of the digital delectables on offer in the app store will reveal that, far from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":""},"categories":[57,15],"tags":[160,27],"class_list":["post-2391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-iphone"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-Cz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2392,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391\/revisions\/2392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}