{"id":582475,"date":"2010-05-27T17:07:52","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T21:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-05-27-couple-buried-alive-under-the-weight-of-their-own-junk-video\/"},"modified":"2010-05-27T17:07:52","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T21:07:52","slug":"couple-buried-alive-under-the-weight-of-their-own-junk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/582475","title":{"rendered":"Couple buried alive under the weight of their own junk"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Ashley Braun.<\/p>\n

Sure, most people living in the Western world could probably definitely do with consuming much, much less stuff. But this Chicago couple demonstrates the extreme: what can happen when a throwaway society like ours throws you<\/em> away. Turns out you actually can<\/em> be <\/em>consumed by your own consumption. (Lucky for them, this pair survived.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

If this isn’t enough to prompt a spring cleaning of your house and your values, then there’s an HGTV show<\/a> out there for you.<\/p>\n

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by Ashley Braun. Sure, most people living in the Western world could probably definitely do with consuming much, much less stuff. But this Chicago couple demonstrates the extreme: what can happen when a throwaway society like ours throws you away. Turns out you actually can be consumed by your own consumption. (Lucky for them, this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":765,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-582475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/765"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}