{"id":34001,"date":"2025-03-19T12:05:19","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T16:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/?p=34001"},"modified":"2025-03-19T12:05:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T16:05:49","slug":"seattle-times-interviews-isenhour-on-thrift-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/2025\/03\/19\/seattle-times-interviews-isenhour-on-thrift-stores\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle Times interviews Isenhour on thrift stores"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Cindy Isenhour, associate professor of anthropology and climate change and Mitchell Center Faculty Fellow, spoke with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/business\/do-seattle-area-thrift-stores-still-offer-treasures-at-bargain-prices\/?utm_source=RSS&amp;utm_medium=Referral&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_business\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Seattle Times<\/a> for an article titled \u201cDo Seattle-area thrift stores still offer treasures at bargain prices?\u201d Isenhour said that thrift stores traditionally see higher demand during periods of high cost of living. \u201cWhen we see the price of new goods rise, and they become less affordable for some people,\u201d she said, \u201cthere\u2019s more demand for secondhand products.\u201d Isenhour also said thrifting is associated with environmentalism, especially in cities like Seattle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cindy Isenhour, associate professor of anthropology and climate change and Mitchell Center Faculty Fellow, spoke with The Seattle Times for an article titled \u201cDo Seattle-area thrift stores still offer treasures at bargain prices?\u201d Isenhour said that thrift stores traditionally see higher demand during periods of high cost of living. \u201cWhen we see the price of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":957,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","spc_primary_category":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":3,"label":"News"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"mitchellcenter","author_link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/author\/mitchellcenter\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":3,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":613,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":613,"category_description":"","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/957"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34001"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34005,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34001\/revisions\/34005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}