{"id":406,"date":"2008-07-15T10:21:14","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T00:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/sdo\/index.php\/2008\/07\/15\/the-story-of-stuff\/"},"modified":"2008-07-15T10:22:51","modified_gmt":"2008-07-15T00:22:51","slug":"the-story-of-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/2008\/07\/15\/the-story-of-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"The story of stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" vspace=\"10\" align=\"left\" width=\"314\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/sdo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/story-of-stuff.jpg\" hspace=\"15\" alt=\"Story of stuff\" height=\"247\" style=\"width: 314px; height: 247px\" title=\"Story of stuff\" \/>If you are wondering what drives seemingly endless western consumerism, check out this interesting expose by Annie Leonard on the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.storyofstuff.com\/?utm_source=ni-enews-oz-2008jul01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=body&amp;utm_campaign=new-internationalist-enews-oz-shop\">Story of Stuff.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The description below is from the website:\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is hidden from view.\u00c2\u00a0The Story of Stuff\u00c2\u00a0is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns.\u00c2\u00a0The Story of Stuff\u00c2\u00a0exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It&#8217;ll teach you something, it&#8217;ll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are wondering what drives seemingly endless western consumerism, check out this interesting expose by Annie Leonard on the Story of Stuff. The description below is from the website:\u00c2\u00a0 From its extraction through sale, use and disposal, all the stuff in our lives affects communities at home and abroad, yet most of this is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,13,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oakleigh.unitingchurch.org.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}