{"id":12581,"date":"2009-09-11T14:05:47","date_gmt":"2009-09-11T18:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=12581"},"modified":"2017-11-03T14:28:37","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T18:28:37","slug":"liberated-consumer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2009\/09\/11\/liberated-consumer\/","title":{"rendered":"Common practices and principles for the &quot;liberated consumer&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Valuing complexity, difficulty and slowness, as opposed to choosing what is simple, easy and fast.<\/li>\n<li>Privileging production, say, of ideas; and participation in knowledge-making, and making and doing in general as opposed to passive spectatorship or the busy work of consuming goods and services manufactured by others.<\/li>\n<li>Sustaining friendship and human connections as opposed to relationships with brand as a substitute for human interaction.<\/li>\n<li>Taking time out; welcoming opportunities to explore broadly, to plunge in with a certain degree of abandon, to be able to start again, to try another path; to experiment and fail, to be right and wrong without immediate consequences.<\/li>\n<li>Cultivating focus in what <em>New York Times<\/em> columnist Thomas Friedman, quoting former Microsoft executive Linda Stone, called our present-day state of &#8220;continuous partial attention.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>\u2014 Bates President Elaine Tuttle Hansen, Convocation, Sept. 9, 2009<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Making better choices by going deep, taking the time, making the connection, staying focused.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[224],"tags":[10840],"class_list":["post-12581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society-culture","tag-elaine-tuttle-hansen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93310,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12581\/revisions\/93310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}