{"id":18820,"date":"2010-07-21T23:40:59","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T06:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=18820"},"modified":"2011-07-23T18:00:26","modified_gmt":"2011-07-24T01:00:26","slug":"simplify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/18820","title":{"rendered":"Why work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bohemian.com\/metro-santa-cruz\/07.07.10\/work-less-1027.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/yamauchi_kazuaki.jpg\" width=\"445\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;The 40-hour workweek was born in the industrial age, when people made widgets in factories. The modern world is a much different place than the one we used to work in, and smart individuals are discovering that time doesn&#8217;t equal productivity.&#8217; -Everett Bogue<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Was in the North Bay recently and picked up a copy of the <em>North Bay Bohemian.<\/em> Great article by Leilani Clark on simplifying one&#8217;s life. <\/p>\n<p>Read it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bohemian.com\/metro-santa-cruz\/07.07.10\/work-less-1027.html\"target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Resources mentioned include NEF&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neweconomics.org\/publications\/21-hours\"target=\"_blank\"><em>21 hours<\/em> report<\/a>, the books <em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/apY4Tk\"arget=\"_blank\">Plenitude: The New Economics of Truth Wealth<\/a><\/em> by Juliet Schor, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/dzDTLm\"arget=\"_blank\">The Story of Stuff<\/a><\/em> by Annie Leonard and blogs by <a href=\"http:\/\/RowdyKittens.com\"target=\"_blank\">Tammy Strobel<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/FarBeyondTheStars.com\"target=\"_blank\">Everett Bogue<\/a> &#8211; plus <a href=\"http:\/\/Shareable.net\"target=\"_blank\">Shareable.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Above: Illustration by Yamauchi Kazuaki; which had nothing to do with the article, just liked it a tad better than the stock image they posted. Found via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pomegranita.com\/2006\/04\/yamauchi-kazuaki\/\"target=\"_blank\">Pomegranita.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\r\n\t<div style=\"float: left; \">\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-text=\"Why work?\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/18820\"  data-via=\"mehallo\">Tweet<\/a>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;The 40-hour workweek was born in the industrial age, when people made widgets in factories. The modern world is a much different place than the one we used to work in, and smart individuals are discovering that time doesn&#8217;t equal productivity.&#8217; -Everett Bogue Was in the North Bay recently and picked up a copy of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,49,53],"tags":[126],"class_list":["post-18820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finds","category-education","category-thoughts","tag-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18820"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28584,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18820\/revisions\/28584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}