{"id":63,"date":"2009-11-30T05:25:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T05:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joanhilty.net\/wp\/?p=62"},"modified":"2014-05-29T18:54:37","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T18:54:37","slug":"this-weeks-strip-pickypocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joanhilty.net\/site\/?p=63","title":{"rendered":"This week&#8217;s strip: &#8220;Pickypocket&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/joanhilty.net\/blog\/BGPIPLH.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/joanhilty.net\/blog\/BGPIPLHblog.jpg\"\/><\/a><br \/>Just in time for Black Friday!<\/p>\n<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d never heard of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Buy_Nothing_Day\">Buy Nothing Day<\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u02dctil now, reading an old punk-anarchist friend\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s online argument that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153ill-conceived, privileged, and useless.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s got a point \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d add \u00e2\u20ac\u0153undersold\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, no pun intended, given it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been around for 17 years and still makes barely a ripple annually.<\/p>\n<p>Still, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s something to it. For ten of those years at least, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been buying instead of building, with increasingly little to show for it. We aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t a manufacturing economy anymore, but pretty soon we won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be a consumer economy anymore, either. With our vast land and resources we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re capable, somehow, of the next big thing, but nobody knows what it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just in time for Black Friday! I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d never heard of Buy Nothing Day \u00e2\u20ac\u02dctil now, reading an old punk-anarchist friend\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s online argument that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153ill-conceived, privileged, and useless.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s got a point \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d add \u00e2\u20ac\u0153undersold\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, no pun intended, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/joanhilty.net\/site\/?p=63\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joanhilty.net\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joanhilty.net\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joanhilty.net\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joanhilty.net\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joanhilty.net\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/joanhilty.net\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joanhilty.net\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joanhilty.net\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joanhilty.net\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}