{"id":4352,"date":"2012-12-30T08:36:06","date_gmt":"2012-12-30T13:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=4352"},"modified":"2012-12-30T08:36:06","modified_gmt":"2012-12-30T13:36:06","slug":"a-haunting-message-from-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=4352","title":{"rendered":"A haunting message from China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?attachment_id=4353\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4353\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4353\" alt=\"Haunting letter from China\" src=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/letter-from-china-213x300.jpg\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/letter-from-china-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/letter-from-china-729x1024.jpg 729w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/letter-from-china.jpg 1096w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><\/a>Here is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/happy-valley\/index.ssf\/2012\/12\/halloween_decorations_carry_ha.html\">a reason<\/a> why I prefer not to buy goods made in China. Some of the goods from that country may have been made in &#8220;re-education through labor&#8221; camps.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, forced labor.<\/p>\n<p>And last year, a camp inmate had the courage to smuggle a letter into the packaging of a Halloween decoration kit. The package sat unopened by its purchaser for a year, when she finally decided to put up some Halloween decorations.<\/p>\n<p>Note to retailers: I am more than happy to pay a premium for goods made in Canada or the US, by free people earning decent wages. And, while I may be in a minority for the time being, I am pretty sure I am not alone.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=4352' send='true' layout='standard' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a reason why I prefer not to buy goods made in China. Some of the goods from that country may have been made in &#8220;re-education through labor&#8221; camps. In other words, forced labor. And last year, a camp inmate had the courage to smuggle a letter into the packaging of a Halloween decoration <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=4352' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,19,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commerce","category-economy","category-society","category-46-id","category-19-id","category-18-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4352"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4359,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4352\/revisions\/4359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}