{"id":209,"date":"2008-01-28T15:20:17","date_gmt":"2008-01-28T20:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/2008\/01\/28\/consumption-the-path-to-happiness\/"},"modified":"2008-01-28T15:28:11","modified_gmt":"2008-01-28T20:28:11","slug":"consumption-the-path-to-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/2008\/01\/28\/consumption-the-path-to-happiness\/","title":{"rendered":"consumption &#8211; the path to happiness?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i have often said that american society&#8217;s primary goal seems to be to produce good consumers rather than good citizens. my friend susan sent me this terrific video that explains it all&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>click on the image below to check it out:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.storyofstuff.com\"><img src='https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/sos_button1.jpg' alt='story of stuff' \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i have often said that american society&#8217;s primary goal seems to be to produce good consumers rather than good citizens. my friend susan sent me this terrific video that explains it all&#8230; click on the image below to check it out:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}