{"id":57,"date":"2005-11-23T17:00:13","date_gmt":"2005-11-23T22:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=57"},"modified":"2007-12-27T18:09:47","modified_gmt":"2007-12-27T23:09:47","slug":"bnd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=57","title":{"rendered":"BND?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday is &#8220;Buy Nothing Day (BND),&#8221; according to Adbusters, an anti-consumerism organization based in British Columbia. Check out the BND Web site at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adbusters.org\/metas\/eco\/bnd\/\">www.adbusters.org\/metas\/eco\/bnd\/<\/a> and scroll down and click on the pink piggy for a sometimes-amusing ad spot promoting the day.<\/p>\n<p>I find it easy to be cynical about BND. It&#8217;s easy to point out that even if consumers don&#8217;t buy anything on BND, they&#8217;ll just turn around and buy the same amount of stuff some other day. In which case, what&#8217;s the point of BND? Well, the point for me is personal sanity. Long before I ever heard of BND, I avoided stores the Friday after Thanksgiving, just because trying to go near any store on that busiest of all shopping days is simply crazy-making.<\/p>\n<p>Besides, I can&#8217;t stand the Musak version of &#8220;The Little Drummer Boy&#8221; &#8212; &#8220;ba-rump-ba-bump-bump&#8221; does not sound better backed by an overly-sweet string section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday is &#8220;Buy Nothing Day (BND),&#8221; according to Adbusters, an anti-consumerism organization based in British Columbia. Check out the BND Web site at www.adbusters.org\/metas\/eco\/bnd\/ and scroll down and click on the pink piggy for a sometimes-amusing ad spot promoting the day. I find it easy to be cynical about BND. It&#8217;s easy to point out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[299],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pop-culture","tag-christmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}