{"id":1362,"date":"2009-03-17T08:21:54","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T13:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/?p=1362"},"modified":"2009-04-28T00:01:16","modified_gmt":"2009-04-28T03:01:16","slug":"ysac-vol-242-next-we-take-blankets-away-from-the-homeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/?p=1362","title":{"rendered":"YSaC, Vol. 242: Next, we take blankets away from the homeless."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<h2>Will trade food for fruit tree or bush<\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<p>My husband and I bought 2 bags of food for the food bank and drove around looking for it for an hour, finally found it and it was closed. I figure there is somebody out there who likes soups, spongebob macaroni and cheese and various other instant foods. If you have a fruit tree that you are looking to get rid of or a blueberry bush with an established root stock then let&#8217;s swap!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So let me get this right &#8230;. you bought food that you planned to donate, and now just because the food bank was closed, you want to trade the food that you planned to donate for a fruit tree or blueberry bush.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, you now want to get something for the food that you had initially planned to give away to the needy. That&#8217;s mighty philanthropic of you.<\/p>\n<p>And, on top of it, you&#8217;re offering to trade that needy someone some instant foods (that they will use up) in exchange for a fruiting plant\/bush that will <em>continue<\/em> to produce food. That doesn&#8217;t sound like a good trade to me. If you offered me a choice between Spongebob macaroni and a blueberry bush, I know which one I would take.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, Alyssa! That&#8217;s two in a row!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will trade food for fruit tree or bush My husband and I bought 2 bags of food for the food bank and drove around looking for it for an hour, finally found it and it was closed. I figure there is somebody out there who likes soups, spongebob macaroni and cheese and various other instant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[23,6,10],"class_list":["post-1362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barter","tag-classy","tag-disingenuous","tag-slimy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1362"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1789,"href":"http:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1362\/revisions\/1789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yousuckatcraigslist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}