{"id":6879,"date":"2018-10-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/business\/meghan-markle-is-reportedly-happy-to-be-off-social-media-here%c2%92s-why\/"},"modified":"2019-09-29T18:48:02","modified_gmt":"2019-09-29T23:48:02","slug":"meghan-markle-is-reportedly-happy-to-be-off-social-media-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wellness\/meghan-markle-is-reportedly-happy-to-be-off-social-media-heres-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Meghan Markle Is Reportedly Happy to Be Off Social Media &#8212; Here&#8217;s Why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social media can be uplifting, motivating and enlightening. It can also be discouraging, negative and all encompassing in our lives. Although Meghan Markle didn&#8217;t have the choice when abandoning her social media accounts, she says she feels &#8220;freer&#8221; now. It may be good idea to re-evaluate our own usage and dependencies as well from time to time. It should enhance and not take away from our daily lives.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-controls=\"0\" data-card-align=\"center\" data-card-theme=\"light\">\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/thriveglobal.com\/stories\/meghan-markle-is-reportedly-happy-to-be-off-social-media-here-s-why\/\">Meghan Markle Is Reportedly Happy to Be Off Social Media &#8211; Here&#8217;s Why &#8211; Thrive Global<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>As they continued their tour of Australia, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry spoke with a surfing community group, OneWave, on Bondi Beach. The group is focused on aiding mental well-being, an issue close to the royal couple&#8217;s hearts, through physical activity. But Meghan reportedly brought up another well-being factor as she spoke with OneWave members: social media use.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social media can be uplifting, motivating and enlightening. It can also be discouraging, negative and all encompassing in our lives. Although Meghan Markle didn&#8217;t have the choice when abandoning her social media accounts, she says she feels &#8220;freer&#8221; now. It may be good idea to re-evaluate our own usage and dependencies as well from time to time. It should enhance and not take away from our daily lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/skinner-production\/stories\/featured_images\/000\/047\/945\/large\/GettyImages-1052476222.jpg?1540325255","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[232,158,231],"class_list":{"0":"post-6879","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wellness","8":"tag-anxiety","9":"tag-social_media","10":"tag-wellnessdepression"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7887,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6879\/revisions\/7887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}