{"id":445,"date":"2006-01-31T22:11:46","date_gmt":"2006-02-01T04:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/vote-with-your-wallet\/"},"modified":"2006-02-16T13:51:58","modified_gmt":"2006-02-16T19:51:58","slug":"vote-with-your-wallet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/vote-with-your-wallet\/","title":{"rendered":"Vote with your wallet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our lawnmower died at the end of the summer last year. It gave 7 or 8 years of service and will be missed. I put off getting a replacement until the Spring and I&#8217;m glad that I did after reading <a title=\"Man who said no to Wal-Mart\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/magazine\/102\/open_snapper.html\">this story<\/a>. I&#8217;m buying a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.snapper.com\/residential.html\">Snapper<\/a>. Coincidentally, I heard <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"NPR interview with Charles Fishman\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=5181097\">this story<\/a> on the way home from work today. I don&#8217;t ever shop at Wal-Mart. I don&#8217;t like it. I&#8217;d love to stop shopping at Sam&#8217;s Club if Costco would get their act together and start carrying an <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"IBC\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ibcrootbeer.com\/\">essential staple <\/a>without which I cannot function (apologies in advance for their flash-based, window-resizing nightmare of a site).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our lawnmower died at the end of the summer last year. It gave 7 or 8 years of service and will be missed. I put off getting a replacement until the Spring and I&#8217;m glad that I did after reading this story. I&#8217;m buying a Snapper. Coincidentally, I heard this story on the way home <a href='https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/vote-with-your-wallet\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","category-8-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fonJ-7b","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}