{"id":683,"date":"2008-07-08T21:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-09T04:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=683"},"modified":"2008-07-08T21:05:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-09T04:05:00","slug":"thoughts-about-recycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/thoughts-about-recycling\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts About Recycling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am amused by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.takashimaya-ny.com\/product_detail.php?productid=16662&amp;cat=249\">&#8220;Thoughtful Tote&#8221; from Takashimaya<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.takashimaya-ny.com\/product_detail.php?productid=16662&amp;cat=249\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5218902398576933330\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; cursor: pointer; text-align: center;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/SG1EFKCcudI\/AAAAAAAADlg\/w4JU2ufToBE\/s320\/thoughtful+tote.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>The description includes this: &#8220;After years of use, simply mail it in and the company will reconfigure it for you. &#8221; This does provoke quite a lot of thought, especially because I&#8217;m not clear on who the manufacturer is. Do you find out only after you buy the tote for $350? Are we sure that company will still be in business after &#8220;years of use&#8221;? How do we define &#8220;years of use&#8221;? What if I had buyer&#8217;s remorse about buying a tote and wanted it reconfigured into a clutch after mere weeks of use? Inquiring minds want to know. <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am amused by the &#8220;Thoughtful Tote&#8221; from Takashimaya. The description includes this: &#8220;After years of use, simply mail it in and the company will reconfigure it for you. &#8221; This does provoke quite a lot of thought, especially because I&#8217;m not clear on who the manufacturer is. Do you find out only after you&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/thoughts-about-recycling\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-683","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-handbags","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}