{"id":117,"date":"2012-11-19T04:12:34","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T11:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nikhitajoshi\/?p=117"},"modified":"2012-11-19T04:12:34","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T11:12:34","slug":"toms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nikhitajoshi\/2012\/11\/19\/toms\/","title":{"rendered":"Toms!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone has DEFINITELY heard of Toms. Who has not? The Blake Mycoskie&#8217;s company TOMS, gives away one pair to a child in need. Great idea, wonderful shoes, helped indeed. The concept\u00a0social responsibility\u00a0pops into my head when thinking of this innovative idea. However, I feel like people don&#8217;t really understand the true nature behind the goal of this company. At this point, the main reason why the TOMS are being purchased is because &#8220;everyone has it&#8221;, I\u00a0believe. I could be\u00a0completely\u00a0wrong. But I truly believe that there are very few companies that have created such a great awareness amongst people. No one before this issue was raised really understood the fact people in\u00a0underprivileged\u00a0countries don&#8217;t have the simple necessities in life. This is therefore a concept which has actually helped\u00a0underprivileged\u00a0children. The concept of TOMS was first introduced to me in the summer of 2011 when I was at summer school in Cambridge and my advertising and Media professor introduced me to this idea. Right after I got back home, I bought them. They&#8217;re one of the best pairs I own.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nikhitajoshi\/files\/2012\/11\/Screen-Shot-2012-11-19-at-3.12.02-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-125\" title=\"Screen Shot 2012-11-19 at 3.12.02 AM\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nikhitajoshi\/files\/2012\/11\/Screen-Shot-2012-11-19-at-3.12.02-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"219\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone has DEFINITELY heard of Toms. Who has not? The Blake Mycoskie&#8217;s company TOMS, gives away one pair to a child in need. Great idea, wonderful shoes, helped indeed. The concept\u00a0social responsibility\u00a0pops into my head when thinking of this innovative idea. However, I feel like people don&#8217;t really understand the true nature behind the goal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14605,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nikhitajoshi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nikhitajoshi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nikhitajoshi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nikhitajoshi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14605"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nikhitajoshi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nikhitajoshi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nikhitajoshi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions\/126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nikhitajoshi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nikhitajoshi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nikhitajoshi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}