{"id":2708,"date":"2009-02-15T02:16:13","date_gmt":"2009-02-15T06:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greatgreengoods.com\/?p=2708"},"modified":"2009-02-15T02:19:49","modified_gmt":"2009-02-15T06:19:49","slug":"2708","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greatgreengoods.com\/2708\/","title":{"rendered":"Recycled Plastic Bags &#8211; Mandala Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/greatgreengoods.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/picture-3.png\" alt=\"recycled plastic bags\" title=\"recycled plastic bags\" width=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greatgreengoods.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/picture-3.png 616w, https:\/\/greatgreengoods.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/picture-3-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/greatgreengoods.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/picture-41.png\" alt=\"recycled plastic bags\" width=\"400\" title=\"recycled plastic bags\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2709\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greatgreengoods.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/picture-41.png 461w, https:\/\/greatgreengoods.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/picture-41-300x293.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Crafted from used plastic bags imprinted with familiar logos and slogans, beauty is created in the form of these mandalas by Texas artist, Virginia Fleck.  Flying in the face of temporary Tibetan sand mandalas that last only a few days, these mandalas are virtually non-biodegrabable and will last forever.   Created as commentary on the ecology of everyday life as garbage is transformed into beauty.<br \/>\nSee many more at the artist&#8217;s website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiafleck.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virginia Fleck <\/a><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"473\" height=\"450\" src=\"http:\/\/greatgreengoods.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/picture-5.png\" alt=\"recycled art\" title=\"recycled art\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2713\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greatgreengoods.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/picture-5.png 473w, https:\/\/greatgreengoods.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/picture-5-300x285.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crafted from used plastic bags imprinted with familiar logos and slogans, beauty is created in the form of these mandalas by Texas artist, Virginia Fleck. Flying in the face of temporary Tibetan sand mandalas that last only a few days, these mandalas are virtually non-biodegrabable and will last forever. Created as commentary on the ecology [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatgreengoods.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2708"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatgreengoods.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatgreengoods.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatgreengoods.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatgreengoods.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greatgreengoods.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatgreengoods.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatgreengoods.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatgreengoods.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}