{"id":544253,"date":"2022-03-07T15:37:02","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T15:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/progressive.org\/magazine\/more-important-than-convenience-farsad\/"},"modified":"2022-03-07T15:37:02","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T15:37:02","slug":"hemming-and-hawing-more-important-than-convenience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/03\/07\/hemming-and-hawing-more-important-than-convenience\/","title":{"rendered":"Hemming and Hawing: More Important than Convenience"},"content":{"rendered":"As a resident of New York City, I am inundated with ads for fifteen-minute grocery apps. These are services that provide, well, delivery of groceries to your door in fifteen minutes or less. A lot of apps, including JOKR, 1520, Gopuff, and Buyk, have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/11\/09\/nyregion\/online-grocery-delivery-nyc.html\">thrown their hats<\/a> into this ring. Even DoorDash has <a href=\"https:\/\/ir.doordash.com\/news\/news-details\/2021\/DoorDash-Introduces-Ultra-Fast-Grocery-Delivery-Providing-Busy-Consumers-with-a-Reliable-and-Convenient-Way-to-Restock-Instantly\/default.aspx\">expanded<\/a> its operations to join the fray. \u00a0 &#13;\n&#13;\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/progressive.org\/magazine\/more-important-than-convenience-farsad\/\">The Progressive \u2014 A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a resident of New York City, I am inundated with ads for fifteen-minute grocery apps. These are services that provide, well, delivery of groceries to your door in fifteen minutes or less. A lot of apps, including JOKR, 1520, Gopuff, and Buyk, have t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":436,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544253"}],"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\/436"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":544254,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544253\/revisions\/544254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}