{"id":10193,"date":"2008-12-16T17:46:03","date_gmt":"2008-12-16T17:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/david_yount_singles_facing_recession_alone\/"},"modified":"2008-12-16T17:46:03","modified_gmt":"2008-12-16T17:46:03","slug":"david_yount_singles_facing_recession_alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10193","title":{"rendered":"David Yount: Singles facing recession alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just as we hunker down to survive the worldwide economic collapse, we are confronted daily with news of fellow Americans who already have lost their homes, jobs and life savings.<\/p>\n<p>In one important respect, Americans today are at a greater disadvantage than those who faced the Great Depression some 70 years ago. In 1930, the vast majority of the nation&#8217;s households consisted of families led by married couples. Today, many more households consist of adult Americans who face life alone.<\/p>\n<p>They include solitary men and women, single parents, the divorced, widowed and unwed partners.<\/p>\n<p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.charleston.net\/news\/2008\/dec\/14\/singles_facing_recession_alone64909\">An important reminder, especially for those in parish ministry in the holiday season. Read it all<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just as we hunker down to survive the worldwide economic collapse, we are confronted daily with news of fellow Americans who already have lost their homes, jobs and life savings. In one important respect, Americans today are at a greater<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10193\">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":[39,40,103,149,98,136,596,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-aging-the-elderly","category-economy","category-marriage-family","category-middle-age","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10193","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=10193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}