{"id":1420,"date":"2007-12-09T13:07:08","date_gmt":"2007-12-09T12:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/09\/do-decembers-green-thing\/"},"modified":"2007-12-09T13:16:10","modified_gmt":"2007-12-09T12:16:10","slug":"do-decembers-green-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/09\/do-decembers-green-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Do December&#8217;s Green Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dothegreenthing.com\/green_actions\/buy_old\/video\">December&#8217;s green thing<\/a> is all about buying an old thing, not a new<br \/>\nthing.\u00a0 New things are the fanciest and most specced-up things and<br \/>\nhave the almost irresistible appeal of being the latest things. But<br \/>\nmanufacturing a new thing uses resources and energy, all of which<br \/>\ncreates CO2.\u00a0 So instead of buying a new thing, buy an old thing. Old<br \/>\nthings save us CO2 and come with less megapixels, for sure, but do<br \/>\ncome with character, romance, mystery and history all included as<br \/>\nstandard.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/UHUYxVY-TKU&#038;rel=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/UHUYxVY-TKU&#038;rel=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December&#8217;s green thing is all about buying an old thing, not a new thing.\u00a0 New things are the fanciest and most specced-up things and have the almost irresistible appeal of being the latest things. But manufacturing a new thing uses resources and energy, all of which creates CO2.\u00a0 So instead of buying a new thing, buy an old thing. Old<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"pull-left padding-top-25\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/09\/do-decembers-green-thing\/\" class=\"btn btn-theme\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Do December&#8217;s Green Thing&#8221;<\/span> <i class=\"fa fa-fw fa-long-arrow-right\"><\/i> <\/a>  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-health","category-science-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}