{"id":12470,"date":"2015-02-09T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3296104"},"modified":"2015-02-09T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T14:00:00","slug":"circles-are-good-for-the-economy-by-kevin_jackson-cloudexpo-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/circles-are-good-for-the-economy-by-kevin_jackson-cloudexpo-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Circles Are Good for the Economy By @Kevin_Jackson | @CloudExpo [#Cloud]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Contrary to what your mother may have told you, going in circles is sometimes a good thing. When it comes to our economy, it is actually a great thing.<br \/>\nThroughout history, society has built itself up by transforming raw materials into finished, usable products. This manufacturing process has always been linear in that:<br \/>\nMaterials (sand, iron, gold, etc.) are evaluated for purpose and taken from nature.<br \/>\nModified and refined as necessary, these materials are combined and recombined into the services and products we use every day, until&#8230;<br \/>\nTheir usefulness to society wanes and the everyday products and services are disposed of in a heap of useless trash.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3296104\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contrary to what your mother may have told you, going in circles is sometimes a good thing. When it comes to our economy, it is actually a great thing.<br \/>\nThroughout history, society has built itself up by transforming raw materials into finished, usable &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}