{"id":180,"date":"2006-01-17T00:32:32","date_gmt":"2006-01-17T07:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/?p=180"},"modified":"2014-04-02T09:58:46","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T16:58:46","slug":"think-global-shop-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/17\/think-global-shop-local\/","title":{"rendered":"Live Globally, Shop Locally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day we went to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lidl.at\/\">Lidl<\/a> to buy sunscreen &#8211; they carry a brand I like. The Lidl is a mid-sized market that seems to buy odd lots of things in bulk. It&#8217;s something in between a gourmet supermarket and a warehouse store, if you can imagine. It&#8217;s a good place to buy pasta &#8211; they get fancy pasta from Italy and sell it for less than our local supermarket &#8211; and snacky things. Also, sometimes, housewares. Or office supplies. Or digital gizmos. It varies. When we were there, they had gingerbread from Germany, good yummy stuff, and not expensive. Husband asked me if I wanted some.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Absolutely NOT!&#8221; I said. &#8220;I get my gingerbread up the road at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lebkuchen.at\/\">Bad Aussee Lebkuchen<\/a> factory!&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>I then went on to list the other items I insist on getting from the source in Austria. &#8220;I get my shoes from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkshoes.com\/\">Th!nk<\/a>, my skis from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fischerskis.com\/en\/\">Fischer<\/a>, my pretzels from the bakery in Aigen, my juice from that farmer that drives up on Tuesday mornings, and my cake from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zauner.at\/\">Zauner<\/a> in Bad Ischl. Unless we are in Vienna, and then we go to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.demel.at\/en\/index_en_flash.htm\">Demel<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You are quite the princess,&#8221; husband replied. &#8220;And kind of a snob.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I did not disagree. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day we went to the Lidl to buy sunscreen &#8211; they carry a brand I like. The Lidl is a mid-sized market that seems to buy odd lots of things in bulk. It&#8217;s something in between a gourmet supermarket and a warehouse store, if you can imagine. It&#8217;s a good place to buy &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Live Globally, Shop Locally\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/17\/think-global-shop-local\/#more-180\" aria-label=\"Read more about Live Globally, Shop Locally\"><br \/>&#8230;read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-austria","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9015,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions\/9015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}