{"id":57,"date":"2023-09-23T14:51:54","date_gmt":"2023-09-23T18:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/?p=57"},"modified":"2023-09-23T14:51:54","modified_gmt":"2023-09-23T18:51:54","slug":"matter-out-of-place-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/2023\/09\/23\/matter-out-of-place-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Matter Out Of Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wrappings; the thin filmy plastics, the cardboard boxes, everything I pull away or rip apart before I can get what I really want. This matter doesn&#8217;t fit neatly into a classification, into an action. When I hold it in my hand I don\u2019t know what to do with it. I have no immediate use for it, I don\u2019t see where it can fit; I haven&#8217;t been given a reason to care for it. Also, this object has served its purpose, it\u2019s lived its life, it&#8217;s done what it was intended to do, so now it belongs gone. It was intended to protect an object, to keep an object pure and fresh for my consumption. Damn! Is that the point of packaging!? Well that\u2019s disgusting. If someone talked about a human that way I would kill them! So why are objects allowed to be talked about like that? An object is not a person, but they are made by human hands, thought up by human minds, they are an extension of humanity. Why do I owe them less? AND it\u2019s the thought itself that&#8217;s so disgusting. Ownership. There is no such thing. There should be no such thing.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wrappings; the thin filmy plastics, the cardboard boxes, everything I pull away or rip apart before I can get what I really want. This matter doesn&#8217;t fit neatly into a classification, into an action. When I hold it in my hand I don\u2019t know what to do with it. I have no immediate use for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1575,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","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\/57"}],"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\/1575"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/recycle2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}