{"id":3170,"date":"2010-09-16T11:16:14","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T15:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.com\/?p=3170"},"modified":"2011-11-25T15:51:44","modified_gmt":"2011-11-25T20:51:44","slug":"eat-pray-love-wear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/2010\/eat-pray-love-wear\/","title":{"rendered":"Eat, Pray, Love, Wear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We wouldn&#8217;t want to imply that a fashion accessory can bring you the sort of answers that Julia Roberts seeks in her new film, <em>Eat, Pray, Love<\/em>, but we did want to point out the handmade, fair trade <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/item\/item.jsp?itemId=19703\">black floral belt<\/a> that Julia Roberts wears as she explores Italy, India and Indonesia.<\/p>\n<div class=\"img-large-center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/item\/item.jsp?itemId=19703\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3171\" title=\"19703_black floral belt\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/19703_black-floral-belt-515x316.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"515\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/19703_black-floral-belt-515x316.jpg 515w, https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/19703_black-floral-belt-300x184.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>We just learned this morning from the belt&#8217;s designer, <a href=\"javascript:openWin('\/artist\/artist_pop.jsp?artistId=15420');\">Jenny Krauss<\/a>. Jenny works with artisans in Bolivia and Peru who handweave these belts from a curly wood thread.\u00a0 She found meaning in her life by working to make sure these women had a market to sell their crafts. &#8220;It&#8217;s important to give and empower those less fortunate,&#8221; she says. &#8220;Most people don&#8217;t have a lot of opportunity to better their lives, so it feels good to be able to contribute something empowering and sustainable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You can support these fair trade artisans, get started on your own personal journey, and pick out your own belt at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/item\/item.jsp?itemId=19703\">UncommonGoods<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From what I hear, Julia Roberts&#8217; character eats a lot of pasta while she&#8217;s traveling through Italy. Luckily this black floral belt can be let out a few notches as needed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In her new movie, Julia Roberts dons a belt from UncommonGoods<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":3171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[40,207,208,189,205],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}