{"id":16809,"date":"2017-08-14T20:33:19","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T10:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=16809"},"modified":"2024-06-30T04:32:29","modified_gmt":"2024-06-29T18:32:29","slug":"shopping-is-the-equivalent-of-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=16809","title":{"rendered":"Shopping Is The Equivalent Of Voting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/ShoppingIsTheEquivalentOfVoting.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-16810\" src=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/ShoppingIsTheEquivalentOfVoting-300x300.png\" alt=\"Shopping Is The Equivalent Of Voting\" width=\"773\" height=\"773\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI reckon it&#8217;s WAY more effective than voting!<br \/>\nVoting just elects the next bunch of recipients of lobbyist donations.<br \/>\nVoting with your spending removes power from the greedy and supports the local farmer, artist and artisan!<br \/>\nEvery dollar you can remove from those who value their profit over your nutrition and health and the protection of our environment is a dollar well directed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I reckon it&#8217;s WAY more effective than voting! Voting just elects the next bunch of recipients of lobbyist donations. Voting with your spending removes power from the greedy and supports the local farmer, artist and artisan! Every dollar you can remove from those who value their profit over your nutrition and health and the protection &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=16809\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Shopping Is The Equivalent Of Voting&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51927,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16809\/revisions\/51927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}