{"id":3394,"date":"2010-06-04T01:51:35","date_gmt":"2010-06-04T01:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=3394"},"modified":"2010-06-04T14:20:15","modified_gmt":"2010-06-04T14:20:15","slug":"from-the-would-you-make-up-your-mind-dept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/?p=3394","title":{"rendered":"The Sad State Of California &#8211; From The &#8220;Would You Make Up Your Mind&#8221; Dept."},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"The%20Sad%20State%20Of%20California%20-%20From%20The%20%22Would%20You%20Make%20Up%20Your%20Mind%22%20Dept.\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Once upon a time, in the late 1970&#8217;s, environmentalists, especially those in California, in order to save the forests from logging, got us to stop using paper bags in favor of plastic ones at the grocery store. How times have changed. Now they&#8217;re pushing legislation through that would ban plastic bags in favor of&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Yep, you guessed it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/2010\/0603\/California-advances-grocery-store-plastic-bag-ban\">paper bags<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And just to make sure that no pocket goes unpicked, there will now be a five cent or more fee charged for each paper bag used.\u00a0  But, on the bright side,  I guess that means that logging is no longer as evil as it once was&#8230;.  as long as it&#8217;s done in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.international.gc.ca\/controls-controles\/softwood-bois_oeuvre\/index.aspx?lang=eng\">Canada<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Again I ask, Why do I still live here?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"The%20Sad%20State%20Of%20California%20-%20From%20The%20%22Would%20You%20Make%20Up%20Your%20Mind%22%20Dept.\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Once upon a time, in the late 1970&#8217;s, environmentalists, especially those in California, in order to save the forests from logging, got us to stop using paper bags in favor of plastic ones at the grocery store. How times have changed. Now they&#8217;re pushing legislation through that would ban plastic bags in favor of&#8230; Yep, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[44,47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3394"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3394"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3396,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3394\/revisions\/3396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonicfrog.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}