{"id":505,"date":"2009-02-26T11:16:39","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T18:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/?p=505"},"modified":"2009-02-26T11:16:39","modified_gmt":"2009-02-26T18:16:39","slug":"how-my-ass-is-killing-the-planet-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/?p=505","title":{"rendered":"How my ass is killing the planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you live in Portland, you never feel green enough. Even if you carpool\/bike to work, recycle, compost, take your own bags to the grocery store, and use cotton diapers on your kid, there is still something you&#8217;re <em>not <\/em>doing. You should feel horrible about it, naturally. And you do because there are reminders everywhere about what else you <em>should <\/em>be doing.<\/p>\n<p>When I read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/02\/26\/science\/earth\/26charmin.html?_r=1\">this <\/a>on the front page of the NY Times at Starbucks this morning, I just about cried. Suddenly, I get to feel guilty about what I&#8217;m wiping my ass with, too. And, as a girl, who drinks a lot of water, works from home quite a bit, and appreciates a nice, fluffy wipe, I have lots to feel guilty over. <\/p>\n<p>So when it came to be my turn in line for my morning decaf, I decided to splurge and buy a pound of coffee for our troops. It&#8217;s this promotion Starbucks is doing right now, and thank god they are. I needed a way to balance out my karma after realizing that I should be foregoing the Cotonelle in favor of cardboard. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you live in Portland, you never feel green enough. Even if you carpool\/bike to work, recycle, compost, take your own bags to the grocery store, and use cotton diapers on your kid, there is still something you&#8217;re not doing. You should feel horrible about it, naturally. And you do because there are reminders everywhere [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}