{"id":1463,"date":"2007-07-03T13:03:40","date_gmt":"2007-07-03T17:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/?p=1463"},"modified":"2014-03-09T02:59:18","modified_gmt":"2014-03-09T06:59:18","slug":"the-better-than-thou-of-reusable-cups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/1463\/the-better-than-thou-of-reusable-cups\/","title":{"rendered":"The better-than-thou of reusable cups"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have to write a post today before getting to my own writing. I don’t know why. I just have to. So I guess I’ll write about something that melted my brain this morning. No Impact Man’s nugget-of-5th-avenue-wisdom post today showing off his jolly reuseable cup<\/a>!<\/p>\n

I got all confused looking at NIM’s mason jar. I got confused because I was thinking what’s wrong with multitasking the old portable coffee thermal tumbler? Doesn’t NIM have one of those from his pre-experiment days? Not that I would ever use my tumbler for anything other than coffee as I could probably sandblast it and any water I put in there would probably taste of the residue of holding brew for twelve years. Still, I got confused because I was thinking y’mean NIM doesn’t have from pre-experiment days a plain old handy dandy portable not-just-for-sports water bottle and isn’t it a positive environmental no-impact kind of thing to use that?<\/p>\n

“WHY the Mason jar with lid?” I kept thinking. Not that there’s anything wrong with a Mason jar with lid, except it’s kind of clumsy to port around in a bag when you’re out walking, isn’t it?<\/p>\n

The only reason I could think of for the Mason jar, in specific, was the cooler-than-thou retro aesthetic touted in the post. Nothing more. Just a matter of coolness aesthetics.<\/p>\n

Are there people who will pass over the reusable vessels they already have at home and run out to buy a Mason jar with a sparkling clean lid?<\/p>\n

Y’know what I get giddy thinking about? I get giddy imagining people, at home, transferring water from their Fiji (or whatever) water bottles to their ultra cool mason jars and heading out on the town. “Yes, yes, isn’t that just like a human,” I think. You know it’s happening somewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have to write a post today before getting to my own writing. I don’t know why. I just have to. So I guess I’ll write about something that melted my brain this morning. No Impact Man’s nugget-of-5th-avenue-wisdom post today showing off his jolly reuseable cup! I got all confused looking at NIM’s mason jar. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}