{"id":154,"date":"2023-10-11T11:55:36","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T15:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/?p=154"},"modified":"2023-10-11T11:55:36","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T15:55:36","slug":"delaying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/2023\/10\/11\/delaying\/","title":{"rendered":"Delaying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I will fidget with anything not nailed down if you let me. Just in front of me as I write this I have a few beech tree seeds, a folded up piece of foil, and some paper straw wrappers I\u2019ve rolled into spirals. While the seeds serve an actual function in nature, the foil and straw wrappers are just repurposed \u201cwaste\u201d of various meals. To me, these objects aren\u2019t waste, at least not yet. They\u2019re still being used, even if not in their intended manner. The line is very thin though, I accumulate them at a rapid pace, and they wear out easily, generally disintegrating within a month, so even a fully functional fidget becomes waste very quickly when I realize I need to trim the herd. I haven\u2019t \u201csaved from the dumpster\u201d any of the wrappers in my fidget repertoire, the all end up there eventually, just not on the same day they things they contain are eaten or used. In this way, they are waste waiting to happen, I\u2019m just delaying the inevitable trip to the dumpster.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-155\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/files\/2023\/10\/IMG_9814-300x149.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/files\/2023\/10\/IMG_9814-300x149.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/files\/2023\/10\/IMG_9814-1024x508.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/files\/2023\/10\/IMG_9814-768x381.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/files\/2023\/10\/IMG_9814-1536x761.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/files\/2023\/10\/IMG_9814-2048x1015.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/files\/2023\/10\/IMG_9814-624x309.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Examples of the straw wrapper\/paper spirals I fidget with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will fidget with anything not nailed down if you let me. Just in front of me as I write this I have a few beech tree seeds, a folded up piece of foil, and some paper straw wrappers I\u2019ve rolled into spirals. While the seeds serve an actual function in nature, the foil and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1577,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-matter-out-of-place"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1577"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}