{"id":4651,"date":"2013-09-27T06:18:54","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T05:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=4651"},"modified":"2013-09-27T06:18:54","modified_gmt":"2013-09-27T05:18:54","slug":"a-man-with-his-brains-caught-in-the-mangle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2013\/09\/27\/a-man-with-his-brains-caught-in-the-mangle\/","title":{"rendered":"A man with his brains caught in the mangle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess only a man (or perhaps a 'new man') could have written the claptrap that appeared in the <a href=\"http:\/\/steadystate.org\/approaching-a-steady-state-economy-part-2-clean-clothes\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+DalyNews+%28The+Daly+News%29\">Daly News<\/a> the other day. \u00a0I can hardly bear to copy it. \u00a0He's describing going back to hand washing laundry using cold water and \"soap\", a bucket, an agitator, and a mangle (wringer). \u00a0He says it's \"fun\". \u00a0Here's a taste ...<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #333399\">On the economizing front, the wringer, clothesline, and bucket are old-school technologies that draw energy from only the sun and a bit of personal labor. And there\u2019s much less embedded energy in these tools than in a washer\/dryer combo. A note about the labor: I thought it would be a more of a chore, but so far it\u2019s been fun. There\u2019s a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/steadystate.org\/a-mindful-path-to-a-steady-state-economy\/\" target=\"_blank\">degree of mindfulness<\/a> that comes with washing clothes this way, and it doesn\u2019t take very long.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>There is little steady about this state. \u00a0It was my grandmother's life, and a hard one at that. \u00a0What a bleak future. \u00a0Thank goodness the Ellen MacArthur <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org\/business\/reports\">Foundation<\/a> (and a good few others) have other ideas about what the future might hold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess only a man (or perhaps a 'new man') could have written the claptrap that appeared in the Daly News the other day. \u00a0I can hardly bear to copy it. \u00a0He's describing going back to hand washing laundry using...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-new-publications"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}