{"id":589,"date":"2019-06-05T08:50:52","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T13:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jeanbaur.com\/?p=589"},"modified":"2019-06-05T08:50:52","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T13:50:52","slug":"how-one-thing-leads-to-another","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/?p=589","title":{"rendered":"HOW ONE THING LEADS TO ANOTHER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/recycling-plastic.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-591\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-591\" src=\"http:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/recycling-plastic-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"recycling plastic\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/recycling-plastic-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/recycling-plastic.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A few months ago, I decided to give up plastic for Lent. I failed, because there are some things&#8211;like the package that zucchini comes in&#8211;that are plastic, which of course I recycled. Or the bag that bread comes in. Same deal. But two interesting things happened. First, my awareness of the amount of plastic in our lives increased, and I found myself almost allergic to plastic bags. Second, I got into a lot of interesting conversations as I politely refused a plastic bag, and either put my items in a reusable cloth bag, or carried them to my car without a bag. I found that people are really excited about saving our planet, and especially the oceans. They&#8217;re thinking about it. They&#8217;re excited that the stores where they work will soon be banning single-use plastic bags.<\/p>\n<p>Slowly, my habits changed so now, I pack my sandwich in a reusable container and no longer have those cute little zip lock sandwich bags. I got these neat waxed clothes from Trader Joe&#8217;s that I use for wrapping up leftovers. My garbage bags are compostable, as are the poop bags for my dog. Instead of being a chore or a deprivation, I&#8217;ve found that I&#8217;m really enjoying this. Take a small step and see what happens. Our earth depends on it.<\/p>\n<p>(Image from Adobe Free Images)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago, I decided to give up plastic for Lent. I failed, because there are some things&#8211;like the package that zucchini comes in&#8211;that are&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jean"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2j73q-9v","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":592,"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions\/592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanbaur.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}