{"id":93,"date":"2007-04-10T11:01:49","date_gmt":"2007-04-10T15:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=93"},"modified":"2007-04-10T11:04:50","modified_gmt":"2007-04-10T15:04:50","slug":"paper-or-plastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=93","title":{"rendered":"Paper or plastic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How about neither?  I spent part of the Easter holiday resurrecting a pair of jeans that never fit me right by turning them into a cloth shopping bag with big handles.  Upon the astute advice of one <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sleepingbaby.net\/jan\/Baby\/clothbags.html\">Jan Andrea<\/a>, I disassembled one of the many Kroger paper bags around the place and used it as a pattern\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe right size rectangle.  I disassembled the jeans and pieced them together for a piece large enough, plus seam allowances.  The site gives excellent sewing instructions.  If you decide to go patchwork like I did, I would recommend removing pockets and other thickness boosters where seams fall first, unless you have a large supply of extra strong needles.  I didn&#8217;t remove the pockets, and several needles gave their lives in the undertaking, but it was a learning experience.  I do all the grocery shopping, like my father before me\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwe&#8217;re a weird family that way\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand I have a sentimental attachment to the paper grocery bag.  When I used to go with my dad (to give my mother some peace and to educate me in the ways of the grocery store) groceries cost roughly $5\/bag.  I went grocery shopping this morning, for substantially more.  Dad was a label reader back in the fifties.  He would&#8217;ve loved all the additional info. now.  How did the new bag work, you ask?  I forgot it, of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How about neither? I spent part of the Easter holiday resurrecting a pair of jeans that never fit me right by turning them into a cloth shopping bag with big handles. Upon the astute advice of one Jan Andrea, I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=93\">Continue reading <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":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}