{"id":49386,"date":"2015-04-15T21:22:19","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T21:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/time_the_rise_of_the_go_fetch_economy\/"},"modified":"2015-04-15T21:22:19","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T21:22:19","slug":"time_the_rise_of_the_go_fetch_economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49386","title":{"rendered":"(Time) The Rise of the Go Fetch Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shamar Theus, a 25-year-old working for Postmates, sits in his Ford Focus in San Francisco for about a minute before the first order comes in on his iPhone. Someone not far away wants 18 lb. of crushed ice, and Postmates is offering Theus $4.80 to pick it up and then deliver it. When he accepts the job, his phone guides him to the grocery store and then to the drop-off. \u201cEveryone\u2019s superbusy, overtaxed. So you bring stuff to people\u2019s offices at 8 o\u2019clock at night,\u201d\u009d says Theus, who is wearing a smart watch and long black dreadlocks. \u201cPeople have just reached a point where they\u2019re so busy that they need to outsource these tasks.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Same-day delivery, an iconic failure of the dotcom boom, is back\u201d\u201cand not just for giants Amazon and Google.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/3733135\/the-rise-of-the-go-fetch-economy\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shamar Theus, a 25-year-old working for Postmates, sits in his Ford Focus in San Francisco for about a minute before the first order comes in on his iPhone. Someone not far away wants 18 lb. of crushed ice, and Postmates<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=49386\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,175,582,589,149,168,119,129,95,34,138,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-anthropology","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-globalization","category-psychology","category-science-technology","category-theology","category-travel","category-urbancity-life-and-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}