{"id":383,"date":"2019-09-05T05:29:46","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T10:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/?p=383"},"modified":"2019-09-05T05:31:17","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T10:31:17","slug":"conspicuous-consumption-335-flip-flops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/2019\/09\/05\/conspicuous-consumption-335-flip-flops\/","title":{"rendered":"Conspicuous Consumption: \u00a3335 flip-flops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2019\/09\/Screen-Shot-2019-09-05-at-6.21.11-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-384 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2019\/09\/Screen-Shot-2019-09-05-at-6.21.11-AM-756x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"418\" height=\"566\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2019\/09\/Screen-Shot-2019-09-05-at-6.21.11-AM-756x1024.png 756w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2019\/09\/Screen-Shot-2019-09-05-at-6.21.11-AM-222x300.png 222w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2019\/09\/Screen-Shot-2019-09-05-at-6.21.11-AM-768x1040.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2019\/09\/Screen-Shot-2019-09-05-at-6.21.11-AM.png 920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 418px) 100vw, 418px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: The Guardian,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/fashion\/shortcuts\/2019\/sep\/03\/pass-notes-hermes-flip-flops\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The \u00a3335 flip-flops: what the super-rich wear to look like everyone else<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The headline is a bit misleading; one does not want to &#8220;look like everyone else&#8221; in these flip-flops; yes they are flip flops, but they are <em>really expensive<\/em> flip-flops.<\/p>\n<p>In reference to the concept of <strong>conspicuous consumption<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Conspicuous consumption is the spending of money on and the acquiring of luxury goods and services to publicly display economic power\u2014of the income or of the accumulated wealth of the buyer. <a class=\"q ruhjFe NJLBac fl\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Conspicuous_consumption\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Conspicuous sustainability:\u00a0the spending of money on and the acquiring of luxury sustainability goods, infrastructure and services to publicly display environmental piety and power\u2014and the income or of the accumulated wealth of the buyer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Or something like that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The Guardian,\u00a0The \u00a3335 flip-flops: what the super-rich wear to look like everyone else The headline is a bit misleading; one does not want to &#8220;look like everyone else&#8221; in these flip-flops; yes they are flip flops, but they are <span class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/2019\/09\/05\/conspicuous-consumption-335-flip-flops\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-concepts-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":388,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions\/388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}