{"id":1557,"date":"2016-07-20T10:30:53","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T10:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisa2016.ii.lsa.umich.edu\/?p=637"},"modified":"2016-07-20T10:30:53","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T10:30:53","slug":"back-at-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/sisablogs\/2016\/07\/20\/back-at-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Back At It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After an interesting stint away from Charchit and Bikram I was ready to come home.<\/p>\n<p>Over the next week I\u00a0settled into my research. \u00a0The routine was: go to a cafe, buy the cheapest thing, and email people who knew way more than me about production and resource use.<\/p>\n<p>We settled on the idea of following a product through its lifecycle (as a way of looking at climate change). \u00a0So the research started out by looking for a lifecycle that was broad enough to encompass the large contributors to climate change: agriculture, energy, transportation, manufacturing. \u00a0After about a week of research we decided a t-shirt would be best.<\/p>\n<p>I started to buy groceries and pay for the internet (which is metered here) because the living situation was becoming more and more housematelike rather than the expected host-guest dynamic. \u00a0This made me a little self conscious because as close as I was becoming with Charchit and Bikram (we would cook for friends together, I went to visit Bikram&#8217;s parents in Chandigarh) I still wasn&#8217;t confident that they would kick me out if they didn&#8217;t want me to stay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After an interesting stint away from Charchit and Bikram I was ready to come home. Over the next week I\u00a0settled into my research. \u00a0The routine was: go to a cafe, buy the cheapest thing, and email people who knew way more than me about production and resource use. We settled on the idea of following a product through its lifecycle (as a way of looking at climate change). \u00a0So the research started out by looking for a lifecycle that was&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/sisablogs\/2016\/07\/20\/back-at-it\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4750,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-42"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/sisablogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/sisablogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/sisablogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/sisablogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4750"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/sisablogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/sisablogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/sisablogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/sisablogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/sisablogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}