{"id":2566,"date":"2002-11-30T17:16:29","date_gmt":"2002-11-30T11:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alpha.ravikiran.com\/blog\/2002\/11\/30\/a-buy-nothing-day-in-india\/"},"modified":"2002-11-30T17:16:29","modified_gmt":"2002-11-30T11:46:29","slug":"a-buy-nothing-day-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/vintage\/200211\/a-buy-nothing-day-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"A &#8220;Buy Nothing Day&#8221; in India?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Americans observed a &#8220;Buy Nothing&#8221; day yesterday &#8211; the day after their Thanksgiving day, and the start of their Christmas shopping season. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techrose.org\/filtercoffee\/20021101.html#13589\">Filtercoffee<\/a> wants us Indians to observe it a fortnight before Diwali. Sure why not? As a capitalist, I will go along with the idea if it gets corporate sponsorship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans observed a &#8220;Buy Nothing&#8221; day yesterday &#8211; the day after their Thanksgiving day, and the start of their Christmas shopping season. Filtercoffee wants us Indians to observe it a fortnight before Diwali. Sure why not? As a capitalist, I will go along with the idea if it gets corporate sponsorship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2566"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}