{"id":1574,"date":"2005-09-07T11:31:38","date_gmt":"2005-09-07T11:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2005\/09\/07\/being_poor.html"},"modified":"2005-09-07T11:31:38","modified_gmt":"2005-09-07T11:31:38","slug":"being_poor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2005\/09\/07\/being_poor.html","title":{"rendered":"being poor"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scalzi.com\/whatever\/003704.html\">being poor is paying a debt to the rich for being born in their world.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In response to New Orleans, John Scalzi wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scalzi.com\/whatever\/003704.html\">Being Poor<\/a>, a list of statements about what being poor is like.  In turn, hundreds of people left comments to add their experience of being poor.  It is a truly humbling entry.<\/p>\n<p><i>(tx <a href=\"http:\/\/epeus.blogspot.com\/2005_09_01_epeus_archive.html#112608026776644958\">kevin<\/a>)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>Update:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2005\/09\/11\/poverty_is_rela.html\">Poverty is relative<\/a>.  Given the critiques of Being Poor, i decided to write an extended entry about how poverty is relative and why this article is important even though it&#8217;s talking about American poverty where people are economically better off than people elsewhere, but not socially better off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>being poor is paying a debt to the rich for being born in their world. In response to New Orleans, John Scalzi wrote Being Poor, a list of statements about what being poor is like. In turn, hundreds of people left comments to add their experience of being poor. It is a truly humbling entry. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-1574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-observations","tag-socio-economic_class-katrina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}