{"id":5610,"date":"2017-01-12T08:00:08","date_gmt":"2017-01-12T12:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/?p=5610"},"modified":"2017-01-07T18:05:30","modified_gmt":"2017-01-07T22:05:30","slug":"good-idea-the-repair-cafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/good-idea-the-repair-cafe\/","title":{"rendered":"GOOD IDEA: The &#8220;Repair Caf\u00e9&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All buzzwords aside, here is a great example of the positive impact of real sharing!<\/p>\n<p>A few years ago, the good folks of Willimantic, Connecticut launched a project to keep usable goods out of landfill by joining together to share their skills and salvage items for one another.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They started a \u201crepair cafe,\u201d where once a season locals can bring broken household items like vacuums, bicycles, and clothes for repair. Knowledgeable neighbors help fix the broken items and provide their owners with a few tips on how to take care of problems in the future.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yesmagazine.org\/issues\/50-solutions\/the-fix-it-shop-where-neighbors-repair-your-clothes-and-electronics-20161220\">Read The Full Story&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"content-description\" class=\"article-description\"><span id=\"parent-fieldname-subheadline-0778570752804c23a825798ba10cb05f\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All buzzwords aside, here is a great example of the positive impact of real sharing! A few years ago, the good folks<\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a class=\"myButt \" href=\"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/good-idea-the-repair-cafe\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1600,"featured_media":5734,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12,8,11,10,50],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5610"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1600"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5610"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5737,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5610\/revisions\/5737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}