{"id":1338,"date":"2004-07-01T08:54:31","date_gmt":"2004-07-01T13:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=1338"},"modified":"2004-07-01T08:54:31","modified_gmt":"2004-07-01T13:54:31","slug":"made-in-china-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2004\/07\/made-in-china-b\/","title":{"rendered":"Made in China, but by whom?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Flos Carmeli: June 27, 2004 - July 03, 2004 Archives\" href=\"http:\/\/floscarmeli.stblogs.org\/archives\/week_2004_06_27.html#016314\">Steven reflects on the reality behind &#8220;Made in China&#8221;<\/a> and provides an infolink about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laogai.org\/news\/index.php\">Laogai.<\/a><br \/>\nI was complaining that for some goods, it&#8217;s hard to find any that aren&#8217;t made in China:  lights for the Christmas tree, for example.  Or children&#8217;s shoes &#8212; it&#8217;s not just the cheapies; even Stride Rite shoes are made in China.  I suppose I could really suck it in and go for those $120 Elefanten shoes from Germany (I have never myself owned a pair that&#8217;s so expensive) but what about families with many more little feet to shoe, perhaps with much less to do it with?<br \/>\nIt seems like the wages in this country are dependent on the availability of cheap imported goods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steven reflects on the reality behind &#8220;Made in China&#8221; and provides an infolink about the Laogai. I was complaining that for some goods, it&#8217;s hard to find any that aren&#8217;t made in China: lights for the Christmas tree, for example. Or children&#8217;s shoes &#8212; it&#8217;s not just the cheapies; even Stride Rite shoes are made&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2004\/07\/made-in-china-b\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Made in China, but by whom?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-christian-life","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}