{"id":25,"date":"2005-12-19T11:03:23","date_gmt":"2005-12-19T18:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/?p=25"},"modified":"2005-12-19T11:03:23","modified_gmt":"2005-12-19T18:03:23","slug":"diy-are-we-losing-it-how-important-is-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/diy-are-we-losing-it-how-important-is-it\/","title":{"rendered":"DIY: are we losing it? how important is it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.treehugger.com\/files\/2005\/12\/easy_homemade_y.php\">this Treehugger post <\/a> that talks about our inability to do things ourselves and our constant reliance if not on technology but also on the prepackaged and premade. Beyond their obvious comment about our grandparent&#8217;s skills that got developed in less happy conditions and because of heavy recession, i wonder if there isnt something there about our ability to learn how to make things, repair things and tackle them and our subsequent attachment to them. Fixing up a shelf in my friend didier&#8217;s apartment, i was thinking about the sweat and labour that goes into fixing things around you, a pair of tables that i picked up off the street a few years ago and stipped and are now in the capable hands of my best friend in Canada. The work and effort makes the object meaningful in a way. How can this be pushed with the objects that contain our digital information??? More thoughts, not much answers but leads nonetheless&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like this Treehugger post that talks about our inability to do things ourselves and our constant reliance if not on technology but also on the prepackaged and premade. Beyond their obvious comment about our grandparent&#8217;s skills that got developed in less happy conditions and because of heavy recession, i wonder if there isnt something&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/diy-are-we-losing-it-how-important-is-it\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DIY: are we losing it? how important is it?<\/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":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p41XhY-p","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","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=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}