{"id":136,"date":"2008-11-29T08:46:37","date_gmt":"2008-11-28T23:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/29\/anti-consumerism-movement-growing"},"modified":"2008-11-29T08:56:15","modified_gmt":"2008-11-28T23:56:15","slug":"anti-consumerism-movement-growing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/29\/anti-consumerism-movement-growing","title":{"rendered":"Anti-consumerism movement growing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cnet&#8217;s Elsa Wenzel posts on the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-17938_105-10109626-1.html\">&#8220;Buy Nothing Day&#8221;<\/a> phenomenon:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Among the latter group are <a href=\"http:\/\/sfcompact.blogspot.com\/\">Compactors<\/a>, 10 San Franciscans who pledged to buy nothing new for a year, then found themselves joined by thousands around the world, and overwhelmed by media requests.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article includes a link to the delightfully well-produced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.storyofstuff.com\/\">The Story of Stuff<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/dz3tPxUFGbY&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/dz3tPxUFGbY&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cnet&#8217;s Elsa Wenzel posts on the &#8220;Buy Nothing Day&#8221; phenomenon: Among the latter group are Compactors, 10 San Franciscans who pledged to buy nothing new for a year, then found themselves joined by thousands around the world, and overwhelmed by media requests. The article includes a link to the delightfully well-produced The Story of Stuff:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137,"href":"https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions\/137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joel.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}