{"id":3920,"date":"2009-10-26T08:09:58","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T16:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/?p=3920"},"modified":"2009-10-26T16:33:45","modified_gmt":"2009-10-27T00:33:45","slug":"in-the-green-your-recycled-goods-not-so-torrid-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/living\/in-the-green-your-recycled-goods-not-so-torrid-past","title":{"rendered":"In the Green: Your Recycled Goods’ (not so) Torrid Past"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s human nature. As soon as you buy something second hand – maybe
\nit’s that charmingly worn out purse you use daily or the remarkably
\npreserved set of china you keep in your cupboard – you wonder: who was
\nthis person who had it before me? What did it mean to him\/her? And why
\ndid he\/she give it up?<\/p>\n

$\"Vintage$ <\/a>

Vintage Dress on Pass the Baton<\/p><\/div>\n

Pass the Baton<\/a>, a Japanese store and online shopping site, recognizes that every item in your household has a story and that buying recycled goods – one of the easiest things you can do to be green – should be about more than the exchange of goods. It should be about personal connection. Every item in the store, and on the online shop, has its own snippet of history provided by the seller (who also has a biography listed).<\/p>\n

$\"South$ <\/dt>\n: South American Mirror on Pass the Baton<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
Kelly Kikuchi, the web manager for Pass the Baton, explains the idea behind the store<\/a>: “My generation facilitated both the evolution of simple resale into ‘vintage’, and the rise and plateau of Internet auctions. Back then, it was about economy, discovery, curiosity. Now, it is about expanding, exploring the meaning and relevance of second-hand.”<\/div>\n
While there is some information lost in translation, the web site is well worth a browse for its incredible objects. From across the globe, they range from the wacky – such as a toilet paper dispenser <\/a>and stuffed leather penguin <\/a>made by prisoners – to the downright chic, but all of them have a story to tell.<\/div>\n
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It’s human nature. As soon as you buy something second hand – maybe it’s that charmingly worn out purse you use daily or the remarkably preserved set of china you keep in your cupboard – you wonder: who was this person who had it before me? What did it mean to him\/her? And why did he\/she give it up? Pass […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[132,716,631,344,630,595,629],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3920"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/198.46.88.49\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}