{"id":43661,"date":"2014-07-18T10:25:03","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T16:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/18\/beverage-logic.html"},"modified":"2014-07-18T10:25:03","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T16:25:03","slug":"beverage-logic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/18\/beverage-logic.html","title":{"rendered":"Beverage Logic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">When future generations describe the madness of this era, certainly one aspect will be the individual-serving bottled water craze, both for its waste and for its insane pricing model <i>that we put up with.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>(There are some limited circumstances when individual-serving bottled water makes some limited sense. Buying it in 24-packs and handing it out at meetings like candy, or drinking several of them a day at your desk, is not among those circumstances.)<\/p>\n<p>(h\/t <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a class=\"proflink\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/105138568577624786912\" oid=\"105138568577624786912\">Doyce Testerman<\/a><\/span>, original\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thedoghousediaries.com\/5846\">http:\/\/thedoghousediaries.com\/5846<\/a>)\ufeff<\/div>\n<div class='gpb-photo-primary'><img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-8A9NAD5hwJk\/U8lJqTI1tjI\/AAAAAAACxZY\/bNEvg4Domm0\/2014-07-18-349866c%255B1%255D.png?imgmax=1024' border='0' style='max-width:100%;' \/><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/ErMv3b833LU' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When future generations describe the madness of this era, certainly one aspect will be the individual-serving bottled water craze, both for its waste and for its insane pricing model that we put up with. (There are some limited circumstances when individual-serving bottled water makes some limited sense. Buying it in 24-packs and handing it out &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/18\/beverage-logic.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Beverage Logic&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/2014-07-18-349866c5B15D.png.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10990,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/05\/01\/tap_tap_tap_2.html","url_meta":{"origin":43661,"position":0},"title":"Tap, tap, tap","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 1-May-07 7:39am","format":false,"excerpt":"Tap Water is the new Bottled Water. 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