{"id":1070793,"date":"2023-06-07T04:47:37","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T04:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=285234"},"modified":"2023-06-07T04:47:37","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T04:47:37","slug":"in-praise-of-caring-less-and-being-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/06\/07\/in-praise-of-caring-less-and-being-better\/","title":{"rendered":"In Praise of Caring Less and Being Better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout my adult life (starting in the 1980s &#8212; yes, I&#8217;m THAT old), I&#8217;ve been aware of, and occasionally participated in, both boycotts and &#8220;buycotts&#8221; for political reasons. Boycott: You don&#8217;t like a business&#8217;s political affiliations, or that business&#8217;s actions conflict with your own political ideas. So you choose to not buy from or sell  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/06\/07\/in-praise-of-caring-less-and-being-better\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/06\/07\/in-praise-of-caring-less-and-being-better\/\">In Praise of Caring Less and Being Better<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/06\/07\/in-praise-of-caring-less-and-being-better\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout my adult life (starting in the 1980s &#8212; yes, I&#8217;m THAT old), I&#8217;ve been aware of, and occasionally participated in, both boycotts and &#8220;buycotts&#8221; for political reasons. Boycott: You don&#8217;t like a business&amp;#8217&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070793"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1070793"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1071187,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070793\/revisions\/1071187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1070793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1070793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1070793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}