{"id":154,"date":"2010-01-02T10:44:17","date_gmt":"2010-01-02T14:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/energyanarchy.com\/news\/?p=154"},"modified":"2019-11-18T19:32:03","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T00:32:03","slug":"hurray-for-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/energyanarchy.com\/news\/?p=154","title":{"rendered":"Hurray for Washington!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, at least something positive has happened in D.C.  A new law went into effect yesterday requiring a 5 cent charge for shopping bags.  This is a small but bold action that will force people to shift their thinking away from mindless consumption and disposal.  They&#8217;ve also increased parking rates.  Sadly the Washington Post emphasizes in their headline the negative impact this will have on consumers by &#8220;pinching&#8221; them.  Why can&#8217;t the mainstream media change their tune and focus on the positive cultural change this could bring about?<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/12\/29\/AR2009122903368.html?hpid=artslot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, at least something positive has happened in D.C. A new law went into effect yesterday requiring a 5 cent charge for shopping bags. This is a small but bold action that will force people to shift their thinking away from mindless consumption and disposal. They&#8217;ve also increased parking rates. Sadly the Washington Post emphasizes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/energyanarchy.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/energyanarchy.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/energyanarchy.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/energyanarchy.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/energyanarchy.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/energyanarchy.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165,"href":"http:\/\/energyanarchy.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/energyanarchy.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/energyanarchy.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/energyanarchy.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}