{"id":1361,"date":"2024-06-10T15:25:48","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T19:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/?p=1361"},"modified":"2024-08-25T18:22:22","modified_gmt":"2024-08-25T22:22:22","slug":"the-island-of-sharing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/the-island-of-sharing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Island of Sharing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vashon Island, Wash., which has a population only 11,000 people, maintains a tool library that contains 1,500 tools.\u00a0 It is believed to be the biggest\u00a0 such library in America, and the local hardware store owners support it because it increases their sales of related items like paint, screws and nails..\u00a0 If Vashon Island can have a tool library like that,\u00a0 why shouldn\u2019t wherever you live have one too?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1w6uej9\"><strong>Chainsaws for all! I live on a rural island where we share all our tools<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/article\/2024\/jun\/03\/vashon-washington-community-tool-library\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/article\/2024\/jun\/03\/vashon-washington-community-tool-library<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Related Reading<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><script src=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js\" data-type=\"book\" data-affiliate-id=\"102171\" data-sku=\"9781447350101\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vashon Island, Wash., which has a population only 11,000 people, maintains a tool library that contains 1,500 tools.\u00a0 It is believed to be the biggest\u00a0 such library in America, and the local hardware store owners support it because it increases their sales of related items like paint, screws and nails..\u00a0 If Vashon Island can have&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/the-island-of-sharing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;The Island of Sharing&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-lifestyle","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1363,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1361\/revisions\/1363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}