{"id":2587,"date":"2010-04-20T20:20:18","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T01:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/?p=2587"},"modified":"2010-04-20T20:20:18","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T01:20:18","slug":"depressing-thought-for-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/2010\/04\/20\/depressing-thought-for-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Depressing Thought for the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our oceans are full of trash.  So says photographer Chris Jordan who visited the Midway atoll, took some disturbing pictures, and presented it at the 2007 PopTech conference.    <\/p>\n<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"225\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=10906408&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/10906408\">Chris Jordan: Polluting Plastics<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/poptech\">PopTech<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This begs the question, if trash accumulates in the oceans and no one is there to experience it, do enough people care?  At least enough to affect policy\/social change?<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poptech.org\/blog\/the_trash_in_our_oceans.html\">PopTech Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our oceans are full of trash. So says photographer Chris Jordan who visited the Midway atoll, took some disturbing pictures, and presented it at the 2007 PopTech conference. Chris Jordan: Polluting Plastics from PopTech on Vimeo. This begs the question, if trash accumulates in the oceans and no one is there to experience it, do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2588,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587\/revisions\/2588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}