{"id":28677,"date":"2018-12-11T13:13:13","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T18:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=28677"},"modified":"2018-12-11T14:48:18","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T19:48:18","slug":"yesss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=28677","title":{"rendered":"Viva America!"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/family\/archive\/2018\/12\/paper-towels-us-use-consume\/577672\/\">In an era<\/a> of waning American exceptionalism, inhabitants can at least pride themselves on an underratedly important, probably shameful distinction: They reside in the paper-towel capital of the world.<\/p>\n<p>This status is unquestioned. According to data shared with me by the market-research firm Euromonitor International, global spending on paper towels for use at home (but not in office or public bathrooms) added up to about $12 billion in 2017, and Americans accounted for about $5.7 billion of that total. In other words, <b>the U.S. spends nearly as much on paper towels as every other country in the world combined.<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.theatlantic.com\/assets\/media\/img\/posts\/2018\/12\/Screen_Shot_2018_12_07_at_5.31.14_PM\/7276b9c1d.png\" width=\"500\"><\/p>\n<p>Suck it, losers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an era of waning American exceptionalism, inhabitants can at least pride themselves on an underratedly important, probably shameful distinction: They reside in the paper-towel capital of the world. This status is unquestioned. According to data shared with me by the market-research firm Euromonitor International, global spending on paper towels for use at home (but [&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-28677","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\/28677","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=28677"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28682,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28677\/revisions\/28682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}