{"id":116,"date":"2005-09-06T14:27:21","date_gmt":"2005-09-06T18:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2005\/09\/06\/shop-to-you-drop\/"},"modified":"2005-09-06T14:27:21","modified_gmt":"2005-09-06T18:27:21","slug":"shop-to-you-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2005\/09\/06\/shop-to-you-drop\/","title":{"rendered":"Shop to You Drop"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a><\/p>\n

Edit: Has anyome seen anything about volunteer work to help people
\ndisplaced by Katrina fill out legal forms related to relief requests?<\/p>\n

**<\/p>\n

I’ve read about Reverend Billy and his Times Square anti-consumerism
\npulpit (I think that Times profile about him came out the day after
\nThanksgiving).  I didn’t realize that he had a website<\/a>, though, until today.  I may be saved.<\/p>\n

**<\/p>\n

Also, the Internet may be the most efficient marketing delivery machine
\never created, at least for me.  It amplifies my consumer whore
\nbear tendencies.  Even if I don’t see something on the Internet
\nfirst, upon “discovering” a new line that I like in a store, I can
\nimmediately go home and find other such products.  Though it portends to “empower” me, it really just makes me an
\nactive participant in the marketing directed to me through allowing me to search out
\ninformation about new products (though when there’s a dearth of
\ninformation about a product, it may make it more attractive.  For
\ninstance, there was a perverse sense of smugness felt when I found few
\nlinks to this recent acquisition<\/a>).  And now, I’ve
\nstarted to keep a running list of ephemeral things<\/a>
\nthat I don’t really need, but may soon buy (actually, I know exactly
\nwhat I am going to purchase on this list: the Lekker votive holder, the
\nMissoni teapot, Bales’s Disposable People<\/span>, and the SJAL eye cream).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Edit: Has anyome seen anything about volunteer work to help people displaced by Katrina fill out legal forms related to relief requests? ** I’ve read about Reverend Billy and his Times Square anti-consumerism pulpit (I think that Times profile about him came out the day after Thanksgiving).  I didn’t realize that he had a website, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legalese"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}