{"id":1864,"date":"2008-07-24T23:04:04","date_gmt":"2008-07-25T03:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=1864"},"modified":"2008-07-24T23:04:04","modified_gmt":"2008-07-25T03:04:04","slug":"market-pressures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=1864","title":{"rendered":"Market Pressures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If this story is true, it&#8217;s a good example of the need for Christianity around the world.  <a href=\"http:\/\/videogames.yahoo.com\/feature\/playstation-2-component-incites-african-war\/1231745\">Africans in the Congo and Rwanda are fighting over control<\/a> of a mineral used to make certain electric capacitors which are used in Sony Playstations.  Children are reportedly being sent into the mines to collect a mineral that has increased in price 500% due in part to demand for Playstations.  It is just as unacceptable for the miners to abuse themselves and their progeny for this as it is for Sony to refuse responsibility for helping to create the situation.  Everyone must do what he can reasonably do to love his neighbor as he would himself.  Though Sony is the big name in this story, everyone in the market handling this product is responsible to understand what&#8217;s going on to the best of his ability.  But I&#8217;m not telling you anything new.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If this story is true, it&#8217;s a good example of the need for Christianity around the world. Africans in the Congo and Rwanda are fighting over control of a mineral used to make certain electric capacitors which are used in Sony Playstations. Children are reportedly being sent into the mines to collect a mineral that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=1864\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Market Pressures<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}