{"id":29506,"date":"2022-01-12T02:42:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T02:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/before-we-were-repelled-by-plastic-we-were-seduced-by-it#id31243"},"modified":"2022-01-12T02:42:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T02:42:00","slug":"jeannette-cooperman-before-we-were-repelled-by-plastic-we-were-seduced-by-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/jeannette-cooperman-before-we-were-repelled-by-plastic-we-were-seduced-by-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeannette Cooperman: Before we were repelled by plastic, we were seduced by it."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>By the seventies, the fruit in the fruit bowl was plastic; the flowers in the centerpiece were plastic; lampshades stayed encased in plastic; the food in restaurant display cases was uncanny-valley plastic. Some of this was a class thing: plastic belonged to that tasteless wide swath of middle America, where you could afford just enough to pretend.<\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/commonreader.wustl.edu\/c\/how-plastic-liberated-and-entombed-us\/\">&#x021A9;&#xFE0E; The Common Reader<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/before-we-were-repelled-by-plastic-we-were-seduced-by-it\">View Post &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        By the seventies, the fruit in the fruit bowl was plastic; the flowers in the centerpiece were plastic; lampshades stayed encased in plastic; the food in restaurant display cases was uncanny-valley plastic. Some of this w&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29507,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29506\/revisions\/29507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}