{"id":126420,"date":"2021-08-17T23:23:24","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T06:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/japanese-man-invents-edible-plastic-bag-alternative-to-save-naras-sacred-deer"},"modified":"2021-08-17T23:23:24","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T06:23:24","slug":"japanese-man-invents-edible-plastic-bag-alternative-to-save-naras-sacred-deer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/japanese-man-invents-edible-plastic-bag-alternative-to-save-naras-sacred-deer","title":{"rendered":"Japanese man invents \u2018edible\u2019 plastic bag alternative to save Nara\u2019s sacred deer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/japanese-man-invents-edible-plastic-bag-alternative-to-save-naras-sacred-deer2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bags made from rice bran and milk cartons.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A local entrepreneur in the Japanese tourist destination of Nara has developed an alternative to plastic shopping bags, to protect the town\u2019s sacred deer.<\/p>\n<p>Hidetoshi Matsukawa, who works for Nara-ism, a souvenir wholesale agent, told <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">CNN<\/a> he heard last year that the deer, which roam the city\u2019s park, were dying after ingesting plastic bags.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to do something to protect the deer, which is the symbol of Nara,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bags made from rice bran and milk cartons. A local entrepreneur in the Japanese tourist destination of Nara has developed an alternative to plastic shopping bags, to protect the town\u2019s sacred deer. Hidetoshi Matsukawa, who works for Nara-ism, a souvenir wholesale agent, told CNN he heard last year that the deer, which roam the city\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}