{"id":675406,"date":"2010-02-25T10:15:35","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T15:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10002557"},"modified":"2010-02-24T22:45:41","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T03:45:41","slug":"amazon-gave-these-ski-poles-room-to-breathe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/675406","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Gave These Ski Poles Room To Breathe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/02\/skipole-thumb-504x378-37426.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>Nathan didn&#8217;t want a gargantuan box with his ski poles, but that&#8217;s exactly what he got. Should the poles reproduce and start a society, they will not lack a shelter in which to live.<\/p>\n<p>He writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I noticed you sometimes post entries on &#8216;wasteful&#8217; packaging; here&#8217;s my brief story.<\/p>\n<p>I placed an order for ski poles on Amazon; after completing the order, my wife decides she wanted a pair too.  As I have Amazon Prime, packages ship quickly so I had to place two orders.<\/p>\n<p>The first packaged arrived, no problem.  The 2nd packaged arrived at my office and the UPS guy had to bring a dolly because he couldn&#8217;t carry my package with any other packages for the building.  You could probably fit like 40 other poles in that same package.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>At least Nathan got a bonus ski ramp with his order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nathan didn&#8217;t want a gargantuan box with his ski poles, but that&#8217;s exactly what he got. Should the poles reproduce and start a society, they will not lack a shelter in which to live. He writes: I noticed you sometimes post entries on &#8216;wasteful&#8217; packaging; here&#8217;s my brief story. I placed an order for ski [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-675406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2PHE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}