{"id":60696,"date":"2017-10-05T15:00:07","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T19:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.com\/?p=60696"},"modified":"2017-11-03T15:03:48","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T19:03:48","slug":"uncommon-personalities-meet-maia-binhammer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/2017\/uncommon-personalities-meet-maia-binhammer\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Personalities: Meet Maia Binhammer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-60697 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/MaiaBinhammer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"813\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Maia Binhammer, UncommonGoods Merchant Assistant<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>My hometown\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Vermont! I claim the whole state as my hometown because it feels that small, and that neighborly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I\u2019m passionate about\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Local and sustainable food, environmental conservation, instant-runoff voting, and Mel Brooks\u2019 films.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I\u2019m inspired by\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rachel Carson and Amy Goodman.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If I could throw the perfect party\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It would involve a snowstorm, a crackling fireplace, and bottomless hot toddies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The most beautiful thing I\u2019ve ever seen is\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The view from the monasteries of Meteora, Greece on an overcast November morning. If that place doesn\u2019t inspire awe and deep self-reflection in a person, I don\u2019t know what could.<\/p>\n<p><strong>My style is\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Playful, exuberant, and mercurial.<\/p>\n<p><strong>While working at UncommonGoods, I\u2019ve learned\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That it really does take a village to raise a child&#8230; I mean, grow a business. I\u2019m surrounded on a daily basis by so many individuals with such diverse talents and backgrounds &#8211; it\u2019s impossible not to feel driven and inspired!<\/p>\n<p><strong>An uncommon fact about me&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I enrolled in a class during my freshman year of college entitled \u201cTightwaddery: The Good Life on a Dollar a Day,\u201d and I maintain that it was the most useful course I ever took.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maia Binhammer, UncommonGoods Merchant Assistant<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":266,"featured_media":60697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60696"}],"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\/266"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60698,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60696\/revisions\/60698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}