{"id":3676,"date":"2010-10-10T14:01:18","date_gmt":"2010-10-10T21:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=3676"},"modified":"2012-05-26T11:56:59","modified_gmt":"2012-05-26T18:56:59","slug":"keeping-up-with-the-jones-%e2%80%a6-by-going-to-burning-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2010\/10\/10\/keeping-up-with-the-jones-%e2%80%a6-by-going-to-burning-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping up with the Jones \u2026 by Going to Burning Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trav writes a very thoughtful piece.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Wandering around the desert wearing nothing more than body paint, a jockstrap made from a $1 pair of used overalls, and a ceremonial staff covered with LEDs and driven by a microcontroller that you soldered together and programmed out of $15 worth of parts is the new conspicuous consumption: it takes $16 worth of materials, and 2,000 hours of time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yup. That&#8217;s how wer&#8217;re wired. Funny, i&#8217;n&#8217;t is? <a href=\"http:\/\/tjic.com\/?p=16891\">Go read the whole thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Darn, I see all kinds of interesting arguments I&#8217;d like to pick at. If only I could get my inbox below 400 unread emails. (yeah, I&#8217;m flaunting a little by saying that, but also it&#8217;s uncool of me to not reply to my friends&#8217; emails :-o)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trav writes a very thoughtful piece. Wandering around the desert wearing nothing more than body paint, a jockstrap made from a $1 pair of used overalls, and a ceremonial staff covered with LEDs and driven by a microcontroller that you soldered together and programmed out of $15 worth of parts is the new conspicuous consumption: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}