{"id":44296,"date":"2012-03-14T03:36:53","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T03:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/2012\/03\/14\/america-is-the-wealthiest-nation-on-earth-but-its\/"},"modified":"2012-03-14T03:36:53","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T03:36:53","slug":"america-is-the-wealthiest-nation-on-earth-but-its","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/2012\/03\/14\/america-is-the-wealthiest-nation-on-earth-but-its\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, \u2018It ain\u2019t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.\u2019 It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: \u2018If you\u2019re so smart, why ain\u2019t you rich?\u2019 There will also be an American flag no larger than a child\u2019s hand\u2014glued to a lollipop stick and flying from the cash register.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut<\/em> (via cyberspacecowboy<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, \u2018It ain\u2019t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.\u2019 It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}