{"id":5105,"date":"2019-05-23T06:48:14","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T13:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/?p=5105"},"modified":"2019-05-23T06:48:16","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T13:48:16","slug":"in-praise-of-barter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/meditations\/in-praise-of-barter\/","title":{"rendered":"In Praise of Barter"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- wp:themify-builder\/canvas \/-->\n\n\n<p>Max wanted a copy of my book <em>Sometimes\na Great Movie<\/em>. He&#8217;d read the novel, seen the movie, and so I dug\none out of the truck and named my price\u2014a local porter.  Max agreed\nand the deal was sealed in the middle of his pool game in Oregon\nTavern Age country. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I love barter. It feels so much more\nhonest than traditional purchasing methods. It&#8217;s face to face. It is\na agreed upon. A handshake is usually involved. It&#8217;s off the grid. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am happy to barter my books and\/or\nauthor coaching services and existential crisis counseling to anyone\nreading this post. Just let me know. Could be a hair cut, smoked\nsalmon, artwork, music, car repair, items from the garden. It&#8217;s a\ngood thing to have barter in your life. \n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Max wanted a copy of my book Sometimes a Great Movie. He&#8217;d read the novel, seen the movie, and so I dug one out of the truck and named my price\u2014a local porter. Max agreed and the deal was sealed in the middle of his pool game in Oregon Tavern Age country. I love barter. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5106,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5105"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5108,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5105\/revisions\/5108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}