{"id":5,"date":"2011-11-02T17:24:39","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T00:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/petroleumbuffet\/?p=5"},"modified":"2011-11-02T17:24:39","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T00:24:39","slug":"eating-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/petroleumbuffet\/2011\/11\/02\/eating-oil\/","title":{"rendered":"Eating oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When most people talk about their petroleum consumption on a daily basis, they are almost undoubtedly speaking about their cars. I&#8217;m a cyclist, so I&#8217;m home free, right? Right?!<\/p>\n<p>Okay&#8230; not quite. Oil is EVERYWHERE. It heats houses, powers electronic and manufacturing machines, and goes directly into plastics. The clincher is : Its in our food. That is actually an understatement, most of our food is actually <strong>drenched<\/strong> in oil. From fertilizers, to the energy for processing, to the plastic packaging and the way its transported, our diets are highly dependent on petroleum.<\/p>\n<p>To investigate this matter further, my History 106 class is required to document &#8220;the oil we eat&#8221; by examining the packaging, processing and transport of the food that we eat on a regular day.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>TUNE IN FRIDAY for a documentation of my strange eating habits, and a brief history of the petroleum that fuels them!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When most people talk about their petroleum consumption on a daily basis, they are almost undoubtedly speaking about their cars. I&#8217;m a cyclist, so I&#8217;m home free, right? Right?! Okay&#8230; not quite. Oil is EVERYWHERE. It heats houses, powers electronic and manufacturing machines, and goes directly into plastics. The clincher is : Its in our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9473,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/petroleumbuffet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/petroleumbuffet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/petroleumbuffet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/petroleumbuffet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9473"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/petroleumbuffet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/petroleumbuffet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/petroleumbuffet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/petroleumbuffet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/petroleumbuffet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/petroleumbuffet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}