{"id":257,"date":"2004-02-14T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-14T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/yfp\/a-corny-solution\/"},"modified":"2004-02-14T15:45:00","modified_gmt":"2004-02-14T15:45:00","slug":"a-corny-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/a-corny-solution.html","title":{"rendered":"A Corny Solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In some alternate universe, a memorable conversation in the movie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0061722\/quotes\">The Graduate<\/a> might have gone like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Mr. McGuire: I just wanna say one word to you. Just one word.<br \/>\n  Ben Braddock: Yes, sir. <br \/>\n  Mr. McGuire: Are you listening?<br \/>\n   Ben Braddock: Yes, I am. <br \/>\n  Mr. McGuire: &#8220;Corn.&#8221; \n  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"last\">It now seems that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/tech\/news\/techinnovations\/2004-02-13-corncontainer_x.htm\">&#8216;corn&#8217; may replace &#8216;plastics&#8217;<\/a> in some areas of this universe as well.&nbsp; Containers which look like plastic but are made from corn have been tested in Colorado and Oregon, and will hit all stores by the end of March.&nbsp; Although <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theoutlookonline.com\/article\/930\">corn containers<\/a> cost 2 or 3 cents more, making them uses fewer amounts of fossil fuels and emits lower levels of greenhouse gases.&nbsp;  Under the right conditions they can decompose in 30 to 50 days, far different from the 1000 years it can take for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dot.state.tx.us\/GSD\/recycle\/fun4.htm\">plastic beverage bottle to decompose<\/a>.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In some alternate universe, a memorable conversation in the movie The Graduate might have gone like this: Mr. McGuire: I just wanna say one word to you. Just one word. Ben Braddock: Yes, sir. Mr. McGuire: Are you listening? Ben Braddock: Yes, I am. Mr. McGuire: &#8220;Corn.&#8221; It now seems that &#8216;corn&#8217; may replace &#8216;plastics&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}