{"id":19923,"date":"2014-07-09T21:25:24","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T02:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=19923"},"modified":"2014-07-09T21:25:24","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T02:25:24","slug":"lego-everything-is-not-awesome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/09\/lego-everything-is-not-awesome\/","title":{"rendered":"LEGO: Everything is NOT awesome."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>How ironic is an advertizing partnership between the worlds largest toy company and Shell, a fossil fuel corporation, whose profits depend on destroying the very future of those toy buying children? Amelia Urry at Grist writes about this nonsensical arrangement which has been in place since the 1960&#8217;s and has grabbed the attention of Greenpeace, which is hoping to bring an end to the lunacy.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/qhbliUq0_r4?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2014\/07\/09\/1312654\/-Lego-toys-and-Shell-oil-a-marriage-made-in-the-melting-Arctic\">Read about it here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How ironic is an advertizing partnership between the worlds largest toy company and Shell, a fossil fuel corporation, whose profits depend on destroying the very future of those toy buying children? Amelia Urry at Grist writes about this nonsensical arrangement which has been in place since the 1960&#8217;s and has grabbed the attention of Greenpeace, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/09\/lego-everything-is-not-awesome\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">LEGO: Everything is NOT awesome.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-5bl","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19923"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}