{"id":6378,"date":"2010-05-31T16:27:22","date_gmt":"2010-05-31T08:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=6378"},"modified":"2010-05-31T17:17:23","modified_gmt":"2010-05-31T09:17:23","slug":"chopping-unneeded-chopsticks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/05\/chopping-unneeded-chopsticks\/","title":{"rendered":"Chopping Unneeded Chopsticks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6379\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/172.jpg?resize=114%2C114\" alt=\"\" width=\"114\" height=\"114\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/172.jpg?w=114&amp;ssl=1 114w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/172.jpg?resize=96%2C96&amp;ssl=1 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 114px) 100vw, 114px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Japanese restaurants are known for their prevalent, wasteful and environmentally-unfriendly use of disposable wooden chopsticks. We visited one recently and came prepared &#8211; with our own washable chopsticks. When you throw away chopsticks, you are essentially throwing trees away.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">I heard that the rationale for using the throwaway chopsticks is that the Japanese are very particular about hygiene. But if it is really so, why not&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>1. use disposable &#8216;everything&#8217; else too? (Just kidding!)<br \/>\n2. bring personal bowls to restaurants too?<br \/>\n3. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">use personal chopsticks from home&#8230; like we do?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hah!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When you ab\/use resources unmindfully,<br \/>\nyou squander your blessings mindlessly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Stonepeace<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese restaurants are known for their prevalent, wasteful and environmentally-unfriendly use of disposable wooden chopsticks. We visited one recently and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[443,89,45],"class_list":["post-6378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmentalism","tag-blessings","tag-mindfulness","tag-stonepeace","wpcat-168-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}