{"id":99,"date":"2008-07-17T16:51:56","date_gmt":"2008-07-17T20:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/?p=99"},"modified":"2008-07-17T16:51:56","modified_gmt":"2008-07-17T20:51:56","slug":"bottled-water-is-bad-we-knew-this-already-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/2008\/07\/bottled-water-is-bad-we-knew-this-already-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Bottled Water is Bad (we knew this already, right?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/5026372\/how-bottled-water-hypnotized-us-all\" target=\"_blank\">Gawker<\/a> just ran an article about <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bottlemania.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bottlemania<\/a><\/em> &#8212; a new book about our overindulgence in bottled water over the last 20-odd years.\u00a0 BAD NEWS.\u00a0 The most shocking of the facts that they bring up &#8212; the cost of bottling, transporting and disposing of a single bottle of water is basically equivalent to filling that bottle 25% full of oil.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s time to just start filling up the ol <a href=\"http:\/\/nalgene.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nalgene<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Not sure if this is an option for some (I know Morgan Hill, CA where I grew up had horrible drinking water), but I know New York tap water is seriously just as good as bottled water.\u00a0 If not better than some (Yes.\u00a0 I&#8217;m looking at you <a href=\"http:\/\/dasani.com\/flash.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Dasani<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>What with the fact that the price of oil being what it is these days (and the fact that, you know, plastic is a processed oil product), maybe it wouldn&#8217;t be so bad to ease off the Volvic?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gawker just ran an article about Bottlemania &#8212; a new book about our overindulgence in bottled water over the last 20-odd years.\u00a0 BAD NEWS.\u00a0 The most shocking of the facts that they bring up &#8212; the cost of bottling, transporting and disposing of a single bottle of water is basically equivalent to filling that bottle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[87,86],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants-and-raves","tag-bottled-water","tag-environment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100,"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions\/100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}