{"id":11627,"date":"2009-03-10T01:59:42","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T01:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/conspicuous_consumption_a_casualty_of_recession\/"},"modified":"2009-03-10T01:59:42","modified_gmt":"2009-03-10T01:59:42","slug":"conspicuous_consumption_a_casualty_of_recession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11627","title":{"rendered":"Conspicuous Consumption, a Casualty of Recession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is a sign of the times when Sacha Taylor, a fixture on the charity circuit in this gala-happy city, digs out a 10-year-old dress to wear to a recent society party.<\/p>\n<p>Or when Jennifer Riley, a corporate lawyer, starts patronizing restaurants that take coupons.<\/p>\n<p>Or when Ethel Knox, the wife of a pediatrician, cleans out her home and her storage unit, gives away an old car to a needy friend and cancels the family Christmas. \u201cI just feel so decadent with all the stuff I\u2019ve got,\u201d\u009d she explained.<\/p>\n<p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/10\/us\/10reset.html?_r=1&#038;hp\">This certainly is one positive outcome of all of this mess.  Read it all<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a sign of the times when Sacha Taylor, a fixture on the charity circuit in this gala-happy city, digs out a 10-year-old dress to wear to a recent society party. Or when Jennifer Riley, a corporate lawyer, starts<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=11627\">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":[40,149,593,596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-personal-finance","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11627","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=11627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}