{"id":2178,"date":"2011-06-28T13:28:15","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T20:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=2178"},"modified":"2011-06-28T13:28:15","modified_gmt":"2011-06-28T20:28:15","slug":"monitoring-your-eyeballs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2011\/monitoring-your-eyeballs\/","title":{"rendered":"Monitoring Your Eyeballs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I need to remember to do this. And if you&#8217;re reading this on a monitor, so should you.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/5591835\/reduce-computer+caused-eye-strain-with-the-20+20+20-rule\">Reduce Computer-Caused Eye Strain with the 20-20-20 Rule<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Repetitive stress injury RSI and eye strain are common ailments among computer users, and there&#8217;s no silver bullet for avoiding them beyond taking regular breaks to relax. Following his doctor&#8217;s advice, tech blogger Amit Agarwal suggests a simple 20-20-20 rule.<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-style:normal; border:1px black solid; padding:10px; background-color:white; margin:1em 25px\">To help you deal with this problem, the 20-20-20 rule suggest that after every 20 minutes, you the computer user should take a break for at least 20 seconds and look at objects that are 20 feet away from you.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Rule suggests&#8221; &#8212; isn&#8217;t that so&#8230;modern?<\/p>\n<p>No wonder people treat the 55 mph rule as a suggestion and not a&#8230;well&#8230;rule.<\/p>\n<p>But in the case of the 20-20-20 rule, I&#8217;m glad it&#8217;s only a suggestion. Otherwise, I need to be punished.<\/p>\n<p>Well, that aside, apparently there are eyeball-rolling exercises to help eyestrain. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cartoonstock.com\/newscartoons\/cartoonists\/cwl\/lowres\/cwln21l.jpg\">But they shouldn&#8217;t be done just anywhere.<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I need to remember to do this. And if you&#8217;re reading this on a monitor, so should you. Reduce Computer-Caused Eye Strain with the 20-20-20 Rule Repetitive stress injury RSI and eye strain are common ailments among computer users, and there&#8217;s no silver bullet for avoiding them beyond taking regular breaks to relax. Following his &#8230; <a title=\"Monitoring Your Eyeballs\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2011\/monitoring-your-eyeballs\/\" aria-label=\"More on Monitoring Your Eyeballs\">Read more<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,13,20],"tags":[987,909],"class_list":["post-2178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-tech-stuff","category-youve-been-warned","tag-computers","tag-tips"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-z8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}