{"id":88,"date":"2004-11-11T18:30:42","date_gmt":"2004-11-12T01:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=88"},"modified":"2018-11-24T01:12:30","modified_gmt":"2018-11-23T20:12:30","slug":"buy-nothing-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/buy-nothing-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Buy Nothing Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Winnipeg, Canada<\/em><\/p>\n

Buy Nothing Christmas<\/em> is a national initiative started by Canadian Mennonites who offer a prophetic \u201cno\u201d to the patterns of over-consumption of middle-class North Americans. They are inviting others to join a movement to de-commercialize Christmas and re-design a lifestyle that is richer in meaning, smaller in impact upon the earth, and greater in giving to people less-privileged. Visit www.buynothingchristmas.org<\/a> for more information and to access alternative resources.<\/p>\n

I met Aiden Enns (former managing editor of Adbusters<\/em><\/a> and the key driver behind Buy Nothing Christmas<\/em>) a few months ago and was impressed by his alternative vision as well as his personal integrity and the efforts he invests in shaping a better world. I\u2019ve always been troubled by the obscene commercialism of Christmas, and when Aiden asked if I would put some creative effort into supporting the Buy Nothing Christmas<\/em> initiative, I didn\u2019t hesitate. This is one of the posters I designed\u2026 (less is more).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Winnipeg, Canada Buy Nothing Christmas is a national initiative started by Canadian Mennonites who offer a prophetic \u201cno\u201d to the patterns of over-consumption of middle-class North Americans. They are inviting others to join a movement to de-commercialize Christmas and re-design a lifestyle that is richer in meaning, smaller in impact upon the earth, and greater […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,6,11,14,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17166,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/17166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}