{"id":6018,"date":"2010-07-05T00:00:02","date_gmt":"2010-07-04T22:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=6018"},"modified":"2010-06-26T17:14:13","modified_gmt":"2010-06-26T15:14:13","slug":"cheat-neutral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2010\/07\/cheat-neutral\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheat Neutral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you cheat? Wish there was a way to offset your infidelity? The founders of cheatneutral.com offer a way to neutralize your bad behavior.<\/p>\n<p>The idea is a spoof on the current policy of carbon offsetting. In the same way that we shouldn&#8217;t be able to pay money to neutralize the damage done to our relationships, the site&#8217;s creators argue, we should not be able to pay money to offset our carbon polluting. The website&#8217;s satirical purpose is to &#8220;make it seem acceptable to cheat on your partner. In the same way, carbon offsetting tries to make it acceptable to carry on emitting excess carbon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Follow the founders of cheatneutral.com to the BBC, Parliament and the high street as they try to convince the public and the media to take them seriously&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=f3_CYdYDDpk&amp;feature=player_embedde<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The idea is a spoof on the current policy of carbon offsetting. In the same way that we shouldn&#8217;t be able to pay money to neutralize the damage done to our relationships, the site&#8217;s creators argue, we should not be able to pay money to offset our carbon polluting. The website&#8217;s satirical purpose is to &#8220;make it seem acceptable to cheat on your partner. In the same way, carbon offsetting tries to make it acceptable to carry on emitting excess carbon.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-video-clips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}