{"id":3609,"date":"2018-02-22T23:32:31","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T04:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.pages.roanoke.edu\/?p=3609"},"modified":"2018-02-22T23:32:31","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T04:32:31","slug":"a-fair-trade-of-furniture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=3609","title":{"rendered":"A Fair Trade Of Furniture?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Written by Beth Janes<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Economics Department is in an uproar following the development of a new barter and trade system for the chairs on the Sutton Patio. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Following three straight days of April-like weather in late February, students have flocked to the sun-drenched bricks of the outside seating only to find an unequal and chaotic distribution of patio furniture. To remedy the situation and provide seating to their friends-who-are-gonna-be-here-in-a-few-minutes-they-just-had-to-print-something-in-the-library, students have taken to haggling with their fellow diners over unused chairs. The interactions usually begin with a timid approach, a little wave and an \u201care y\u2019all using this chair? Can I take it?\u201d. The interactions typically end with the primal pride of a hunter returning with his kill or, conversely, with a sheepish \u201csorry\u201d and a dejected walk back to their respective table. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI\u2019ve never heard of a society developing a complete economic system in only three days,\u201d said one, rather flustered, economics professor, \u201cbut I suppose the mania produced by sunshine is a variable that\u2019s never been accounted for.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It will be interesting to see if this market bubble lasts into the rainy weekend, or if it will reemerge with the onset of true springtime. Until then, you\u2019re guaranteed to find 1-3 economists furiously scribbling in notebooks during Commons\u2019 hours of operations. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Beth Janes The Economics Department is in an uproar following the development of a new barter and trade system for the chairs on the Sutton Patio. Following three straight days of April-like weather in late February, students have flocked to the sun-drenched bricks of the outside seating only to find an unequal and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}