{"id":10,"date":"2005-11-05T06:37:54","date_gmt":"2005-11-05T13:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/?p=10"},"modified":"2005-11-05T06:37:54","modified_gmt":"2005-11-05T13:37:54","slug":"the-new-puritain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/the-new-puritain\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Puritain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/observer.guardian.co.uk\/magazine\/story\/0,11913,1596540,00.html\">Guardian article<\/a> descibes an interesting social twist on current concerns about consumerism.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So, with a few grand gestures and some high-profile converts New Puritanism offers a powerful escape route from our impulsive, reward-driven lifestyles. It might just have the potential to stave off the horrors promised by an out-of-control consumerist culture in which, according to agrarian essayist Wendell Berry, &#8216;The histories of all products will be lost. The degradation of products and places, producers and consumers is inevitable.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I am not sure turning to the Amish lifestyle that&#8217;s advocated here is the best way to get any kind of social responsibility message across but its a start  :-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Guardian article descibes an interesting social twist on current concerns about consumerism. &#8220;So, with a few grand gestures and some high-profile converts New Puritanism offers a powerful escape route from our impulsive, reward-driven lifestyles. It might just have the potential to stave off the horrors promised by an out-of-control consumerist culture in which, according&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2005\/11\/the-new-puritain\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The New Puritain<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p41XhY-a","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}