{"id":2687,"date":"2016-04-15T05:53:39","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T21:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/15\/stunning-photo-series-celebrates-contemporary-childhood-without-technology\/"},"modified":"2016-04-15T05:53:39","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T21:53:39","slug":"stunning-photo-series-celebrates-contemporary-childhood-without-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/15\/stunning-photo-series-celebrates-contemporary-childhood-without-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Stunning photo series celebrates contemporary childhood without technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kids\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzA0LzE0L2QyL2tpZHMuMTQzNGIuanBnCnAJdGh1bWIJNTc1eDMyMyMKZQlqcGc\/caa60375\/22e\/kids.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Stunning+photo+series+celebrates+contemporary+childhood+without+technology&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F04%2F14%2Foutdoors-childhood%2F\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F04%2F14%2Foutdoors-childhood%2F&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Growing up with no smartphones, no Netflix, no Snapchat? To many these were the good ole days.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Those childhoods of yesteryear are alive and well today for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nikiboonphotos.com\/\">Niki Boon&#8217;s children<\/a>, who spend their days with their cousins soaking in<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">\u00a0life and nature on a 10-acre coastline property in New Zealand, rather than spending it <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/03\/16\/phones-adorable-dogs-sxsw#XL4.GELUskqx?utm_campaign=&amp;utm_context=textlink&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_source=\">draining iPad batteries<\/a> or cell data.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/01\/15\/pictures-smiling-dogs\/\">This brilliant photo series of smiling dogs will get your tail wagging<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">Boon explains on her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nikiboonphotos.com\/\">website<\/a> that her children, &#8220;<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">are unschooled and live without TV or modern electronic devices.&#8221; Acknowledging this as an unconventional setup in today&#8217;s day and age, Boon chooses to celebrate their simpler lifestyle.<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/04\/14\/outdoors-childhood\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/childhood\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Childhood<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/outdoors\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Outdoors<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/watercooler\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Watercooler<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/photography\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Photography<\/a><br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/ad.doubleclick.net\/jump\/mash.to\/rss;pos=atf;tag=ad;mtype=standard;type=rss;sz=300x250;ord=1460670448' target='_blank'><br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/ad.doubleclick.net\/ad\/mash.to\/rss;pos=atf;tag=ad;mtype=standard;type=rss;sz=300x250;ord=1460670448'><br \/>\n<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/kJFYVlvpyXE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growing up with no smartphones, no Netflix, no Snapchat? 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Those childhoods of yesteryear are alive and well today for Niki Boon&#8217;s children, who spend their days with their cousins soaking in\u00a0life and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/15\/stunning-photo-series-celebrates-contemporary-childhood-without-technology\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1901,1902,954,735],"class_list":["post-2687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-childhood","tag-outdoors","tag-photography","tag-watercooler"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}