{"id":7124,"date":"2017-07-04T08:00:49","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T12:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/?p=7124"},"modified":"2017-07-04T07:58:38","modified_gmt":"2017-07-04T11:58:38","slug":"plastic-free-pledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/plastic-free-pledge\/","title":{"rendered":"An Independence Day Pledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">&#8220;Every July, over a million people around the world participate in <strong>Plastic Free July, a challenge to refuse single-use plastics for one whole month<\/strong>. This year, we\u2019re trying something a little different \u2013 and we\u2019d like to invite you to take part.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><strong>Here\u2019s the thing.<\/strong> Avoiding plastic for any amount of time is a great thing to do \u2013 but that alone won\u2019t end our addiction to plastic. When individuals choose not to buy or use plastic, they remove plastic from <em>their<\/em> lives. But what we really need is to eliminate problematic plastic from the economy altogether. <strong>To do that, we need to work together to push communities, companies, and countries to go plastic free.<\/strong>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/plastic-free-july.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-7131 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/plastic-free-july-1024x535.png\" alt=\"plastic-free-july\" width=\"400\" height=\"209\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/plastic-free-july-1024x535.png 1024w, https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/plastic-free-july-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/plastic-free-july-600x314.png 600w, https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/plastic-free-july-390x205.png 390w, https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/plastic-free-july.png 1200w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 400px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 400\/209;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/action.storyofstuff.org\/sign\/plastic-free-july17?akid=s4021..J9xd9t\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>CLICK TO TAKE THE PLEDGE<\/strong> <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Need some inspiration?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PlasticFreeLC\/\" target=\"_blank\">Plastic Free Lowcountry<\/a> and the many local businesses who&#8217;ve gone strawless already this summer!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/19274968_1502693393114674_6216084745832892961_n.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7134 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/19274968_1502693393114674_6216084745832892961_n.png\" alt=\"strawlesssummer\" width=\"474\" height=\"615\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/19274968_1502693393114674_6216084745832892961_n.png 474w, https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/19274968_1502693393114674_6216084745832892961_n-231x300.png 231w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 474px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 474\/615;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Every July, over a million people around the world participate in Plastic Free July, a challenge to refuse single-use plastics for one<\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a class=\"myButt \" href=\"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/plastic-free-pledge\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1600,"featured_media":7133,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,24,3,12,36,8,11,26,10,41,58,9,33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7124"}],"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=7124"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7137,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7124\/revisions\/7137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}