{"id":156,"date":"2010-08-23T08:42:25","date_gmt":"2010-08-23T00:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/?p=156"},"modified":"2010-08-23T08:43:26","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T00:43:26","slug":"current-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/?p=156","title":{"rendered":"Current Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Bringing It To The Table\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bringing-Table-Farming-Wendell-Berry\/dp\/158243543X\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1282524164&amp;sr=8-1\" target=\"_blank\">Wendell Berry&#8217;s <em>Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food.<\/em><\/a><br \/>\nOnly halfway through. Fantastic read so far, especially in how he relates how the industrial concept (bigger, better, faster, mechanized) doesn&#8217;t work when applied to human society itself. Recommended.<\/p>\n<p>On a related note, given that it got mentioned in Berry&#8217;s book, do they really call home economics &#8220;family and consumer economics&#8221; now? Seriously and for real? Uh &#8230; wow, I&#8217;m not happy about that. I hate being labeled as a mere &#8220;consumer&#8221;, and I really resent the way the consumer mindset is being pushed on us constantly. I produce, dangit!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wendell Berry&#8217;s Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food. Only halfway through. Fantastic read so far, especially in how he relates how the industrial concept (bigger, better, faster, mechanized) doesn&#8217;t work when applied to human society itself. Recommended. On a related note, given that it got mentioned in Berry&#8217;s book, do they really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[34],"tags":[37,73],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-book-review","tag-reading"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6CUdQ-2w","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.auntiepasto.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}