{"id":881,"date":"2010-06-10T22:41:34","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T05:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=881"},"modified":"2010-06-10T22:41:34","modified_gmt":"2010-06-11T05:41:34","slug":"biodegradable-gift-cards-coming-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/?p=881","title":{"rendered":"Biodegradable gift cards coming soon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/cereplast-introduces-11-new-grades-of-bioplastic-resins-for-wide-range-of-plastics-applications-2010-06-10?reflink=MW_news_stmp\" target=\"_blank\">press release<\/a> for a new biodegradable plastic product suitable for, among other things, gift cards.<\/p>\n<p>Given how many gift cards are sold each year (billions), it is probably a good idea if they were all compostable.\u00a0 Hey, how about credit cards too?<\/p>\n<p>For me personally, biodegradable gift card would still make a mostly thoughtless gift in most cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this press release for a new biodegradable plastic product suitable for, among other things, gift cards. Given how many gift cards are sold each year (billions), it is probably a good idea if they were all compostable.\u00a0 Hey, how about credit cards too? For me personally, biodegradable gift card would still make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=881"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":883,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions\/883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.giftcardadvocate.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}