{"id":5325,"date":"2014-09-04T22:24:36","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T20:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=5325"},"modified":"2014-09-04T22:24:36","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T20:24:36","slug":"natural_materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2014\/09\/04\/natural_materials\/","title":{"rendered":"Natural materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"imagecontainer\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/Cooking_fork.jpg\" class=\"x6y4\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"imagecaption\">A wooden cooking fork<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>I am not a luddite. I like my modern technology. I like computers and digital cameras, with their silicon and long-life rechargeable batteries and scratch-resistant screens.<\/p>\n<p>But in more physical everyday activities I notice that old-school natural materials are still far superior to anything that two hundred years of industrialisation and modern chemistry and technological progress can produce.<\/p>\n<p>Fabric shopping bags are better than plastic bags. Quite apart from any environmental concerns, they are just much more comfortable. The handles are soft and don&#8217;t cut into my fingers. They are strong. They have and hold a shape so they are easier to pack.<\/p>\n<p>For cooking, nothing compares to a wooden spoon, and wooden cooking forks are awesome too. Wood is sturdier and more heat tolerant than plastic, softer and warmer than metal. For stirring cake batter, mashed potatoes or a bean casserole &#8211; anything that requires serious stirring &#8211; only a wooden spoon will do.<\/p>\n<p>Wicker baskets are irreplaceable. My small basket for gardening tools is soft and warm and pleasant to hold. A bit of moisture and soil will not make it rust; years of exposure to sunlight will not weaken it. Dust and crumbs of earth fall through the cracks at the bottom.<\/p>\n<p>Wooden chairs. Straw hats. Terracotta flower pots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A wooden cooking fork I am not a luddite. I like my modern technology. I like computers and digital cameras, with their silicon and long-life rechargeable batteries and scratch-resistant screens. But in more physical everyday activities I notice that old-school natural materials are still far superior to anything that two hundred years of industrialisation and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything_else"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5325"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5328,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5325\/revisions\/5328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}