{"id":735,"date":"2014-03-27T11:51:20","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T18:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roomforapony.net\/?p=735"},"modified":"2014-03-27T11:55:12","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T18:55:12","slug":"how-much-to-tell-the-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/?p=735","title":{"rendered":"How much to tell the public"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">Ever feel like you\u2019re not being told the whole story? Well you\u2019re not. And you should be grateful for it, because the whole story is way too complicated. You\u2019d hate it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The PR of recycling knows that if you overload people with information they didn\u2019t really care about in the first place, you risk having them shut down completely.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-736\" alt=\"Tires\" src=\"http:\/\/roomforapony.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Tires.jpeg\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One time I needed to buy tires for my car, and the tire guy gave me so much information about tires that I felt I\u2019d have to go get a master\u2019s degree in tires before I could possibly make the right decision. So I put off buying them, and then since the master\u2019s degree in tires didn\u2019t work out, I never did buy any. I went along my merry way and happily reverted back to thinking that tires were circles made of black rubber. My brain was relieved and life was easy again.<\/p>\n<p>The recycling PR people know that if they do it wrong, the public could revert back to thinking that garbage is something you put into a garbage can and forget about. However, some of the public, such as the writer and readers of this blog, are are a little more curious than average, and have questions they want answered.<\/p>\n<p>Here is one of them: Tub lids. If you can put the tubs into the curbside recycling, why the H-E-double-hockey-sticks can\u2019t you put the lids in?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll explain in my next post.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever feel like you\u2019re not being told the whole story? Well you\u2019re not. And you should be grateful for it, because the whole story is way too complicated. You\u2019d hate it.\u00a0 The PR of recycling knows that if you overload people with information they didn\u2019t really care about in the first place, you risk having [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,81,39],"tags":[188,161,76,189],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":737,"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions\/737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roomforapony.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}