{"id":11358,"date":"2009-02-20T11:04:34","date_gmt":"2009-02-20T11:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/newly_poor_swell_lines_at_us_food_banks\/"},"modified":"2009-02-20T11:04:34","modified_gmt":"2009-02-20T11:04:34","slug":"newly_poor_swell_lines_at_us_food_banks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11358","title":{"rendered":"Newly poor swell lines at U.S. food banks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cindy Dreeszen and her husband live in one of the wealthiest counties in the United States. They have steady jobs, his at a movie theater and hers at a government office. Together, they earn about $55,000 a year.<\/p>\n<p>But with a 17-month-old son, another baby on the way, and, as Dreeszen put it, &#8220;the cost of everything going up and up,&#8221; the couple went to a food pantry this month to ask for some free groceries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t think we&#8217;d even be allowed to come here,&#8221; said Dreeszen, 41, glancing around at the shelves of fruit, whole-wheat pasta and baby food.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is totally something that I never expected to happen, to have to resort to this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/bin\/printfriendly.php?id=20315054\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cindy Dreeszen and her husband live in one of the wealthiest counties in the United States. They have steady jobs, his at a movie theater and hers at a government office. Together, they earn about $55,000 a year. But with<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11358\">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":[39,40,100,149,88,596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-dietingfoodnutrition","category-economy","category-poverty","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11358","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=11358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}