{"id":683,"date":"2008-06-28T19:41:17","date_gmt":"2008-06-29T01:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/?p=683"},"modified":"2008-06-28T22:49:18","modified_gmt":"2008-06-29T04:49:18","slug":"paper-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/?p=683","title":{"rendered":"Paper Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turns out Eric Scheie and I are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.classicalvalues.com\/archives\/2008\/06\/post_823.html\" target=\"_blank\">fighting the same battle today<\/a>. My efforts are far more modest than Eric&#8217;s, involving one puny schredder and a few garbage bags. Still, there is a lot of paper I HAVE to keep, mostly related to Janet&#8217;s psychotherapy practice. Stuff I can&#8217;t distroy for a few years yet due to some rather vague legal reason. Ack. Nonetheless, I toss what I can.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s interesting about the battle in Eric&#8217;s trench is he apperently gets far mor junk mail than I. He quotes from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.obviously.com\/junkmail\/\" target=\"_blank\">these folks<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;The amount of paper junk mail sent each year in the USA is staggering &#8212; some 4 million tons, nearly half of which is never opened.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The most staggering thing about that statistic, assuming it&#8217;s true, is that of those 4 million tons, <em><strong>over half of it actually <\/strong><\/em><em><strong>is <\/strong><\/em><em><strong>opened<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Who are these people?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turns out Eric Scheie and I are fighting the same battle today. My efforts are far more modest than Eric&#8217;s, involving one puny schredder and a few garbage bags. Still, there is a lot of paper I HAVE to keep, mostly related to Janet&#8217;s psychotherapy practice. Stuff I can&#8217;t distroy for a few years yet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,13,17,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}