{"id":10250,"date":"2008-12-19T19:59:59","date_gmt":"2008-12-19T19:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/scott_kraft_the_rise_of_the_late_baby_boomers\/"},"modified":"2008-12-19T19:59:59","modified_gmt":"2008-12-19T19:59:59","slug":"scott_kraft_the_rise_of_the_late_baby_boomers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10250","title":{"rendered":"Scott Kraft: The rise of the late baby boomers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President-elect Barack Obama may well be one of the 79 million members of the baby boom generation. But he&#8217;s a late-wave boomer, a child of the 1970s &#8212; as are half of the two dozen people he&#8217;s selected thus far to help him lead the country.<\/p>\n<p>Many of those Obama is bringing to Washington &#8212; including his Education secretary, Homeland Security chief, Treasury secretary, United Nations ambassador and Energy czar &#8212; came of age in the era of Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan.<\/p>\n<p>And their shared experiences offer insights into how they may govern: They tend to be less ideological than early boomers, more respectful of contrary opinions, more pragmatic and a lot less likely to get bogged down by the shibboleths of the 1960s, according to historians, marketers and pollsters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/asia\/la-na-generations18-2008dec18,0,6039741.story\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President-elect Barack Obama may well be one of the 79 million members of the baby boom generation. But he&#8217;s a late-wave boomer, a child of the 1970s &#8212; as are half of the two dozen people he&#8217;s selected thus far<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=10250\">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":[39,40,133,151,142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-history","category-politics-in-general","category-us-presidential-election-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10250","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=10250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}