{"id":20182,"date":"2014-03-25T13:37:05","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T13:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=20182"},"modified":"2014-03-25T19:03:31","modified_gmt":"2014-03-25T19:03:31","slug":"the-huge-carbon-footprint-of-little-pickles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=20182","title":{"rendered":"The Huge Carbon Footprint of My Little Pickles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because it's spring, it's time to put the seeds in the dirt. Mrs. requested I plant some little cucumbers, gherkins, for pickling. Easy enough, I thought - there are a thousand kinds of seeds for sale in stores right now, surely I can find little cucumbers. But, I couldn't. I had to go to Amazon to find seeds for gherkins. And, of course, some mom-n-pop seed store out there somewhere had a packet of seeds for me. Hooray. They were many times more expensive than a packet of ordinary cuke seeds from the store, but still cost less than a jar of pickles. So, no biggie. Click, click, done.<\/p>\n<p>The seeds appeared in the mail yesterday. Turns out they came air mail, <i>from Singapore<\/i>. WTF?<\/p>\n<p>How can anyone make money air-mailing seeds halfway around the world for less than four bucks, including shipping?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because it's spring, it's time to put the seeds in the dirt. Mrs. requested I plant some little cucumbers, gherkins, for pickling. Easy enough, I thought - there are a thousand kinds of seeds for sale in stores right now, surely I can find little cucumbers. But, I couldn't. I had to go to Amazon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20182"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20191,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20182\/revisions\/20191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}