{"id":2146,"date":"2007-05-08T06:32:41","date_gmt":"2007-05-08T12:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/how-some-people-celebrated-earth-day\/"},"modified":"2007-05-08T11:15:44","modified_gmt":"2007-05-08T17:15:44","slug":"how-some-people-celebrated-earth-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/letters-to-the-editor\/how-some-people-celebrated-earth-day\/","title":{"rendered":"How Some People Celebrated Earth Day (updated 5\/8\/07)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"mine\"><p>As I do every other day, I walked Lucky Dog around the neighborhood park today. Our park has two soccer fields, both of which are in use most Saturdays and, maybe, Sundays. Today, all around the two fields, I picked up small water bottles thoughtlessly tossed on the ground by players or fans (parents). We tell ourselves many lies, one of which is that &#8220;sports build character and discipline.&#8221; The evidence of that litters fields all over the world. Another lie: &#8220;environmental consciousness has become mainstream.&#8221; Or any kind of consciousness, for that matter.<\/p>\n<p>To all the coaches, referees and parents: how about a post-game sweep of the field to clean-up? Show some leadership, teach some discipline, encourage some character. To the athletes: it&#8217;s up to you to keep your world from becoming a pigsty. <span class=\"sig\">mjh<\/span><\/p>\n<p>PS: original blog entry 04\/23\/07; printed in abqjournal.com 5\/8\/07<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I do every other day, I walked Lucky Dog around the neighborhood park today. Our park has two soccer fields, both of which are in use most Saturdays and, maybe, Sundays. Today, all around the two fields, I picked up small water bottles thoughtlessly tossed on the ground by players or fans (parents). We &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/letters-to-the-editor\/how-some-people-celebrated-earth-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How Some People Celebrated Earth Day (updated 5\/8\/07)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-to-the-editor","category-nada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}