{"id":2635,"date":"2017-07-12T05:45:44","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T09:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=2635"},"modified":"2017-07-12T05:45:44","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T09:45:44","slug":"what-were-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=2635","title":{"rendered":"What we&#8217;re after"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/business\/currency\/how-to-plant-a-tree-in-the-desert\">This article details a new business <\/a>that has an elegant solution to a complicated environmental problem: desertification.<\/p>\n<p>Money paragraph:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The cocoon is a bit deceptive in its seeming simplicity: a good deal of high-tech thinking went into it. \u201cEveryone likes biodegradable,\u201d Ruys said, \u201cbut it\u2019s actually a tricky concept. You want a thing to work over a period of time, then completely disappear. It\u2019s hard to do, which is why, as consumers, we still buy plastic.\u201d Ruys solved the problem with a particular kind of wax coating that dissolves at the right time. He also spent a lot of time developing a wick that would precisely feed water to the plant.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article details a new business that has an elegant solution to a complicated environmental problem: desertification. Money paragraph: The cocoon is a bit deceptive in its seeming simplicity: a good deal of high-tech thinking went into it. \u201cEveryone likes biodegradable,\u201d Ruys said, \u201cbut it\u2019s actually a tricky concept. You want a thing to work &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=2635\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What we&#8217;re after<\/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":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8rNFZ-Gv","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2636,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635\/revisions\/2636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}