{"id":14689,"date":"2009-08-29T20:01:08","date_gmt":"2009-08-29T20:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wsj_front_page_halting_recovery_divides_america_in_two\/"},"modified":"2009-08-29T20:01:08","modified_gmt":"2009-08-29T20:01:08","slug":"wsj_front_page_halting_recovery_divides_america_in_two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=14689","title":{"rendered":"WSJ Front Page: Halting Recovery Divides America in Two"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At one extreme of Corporate America is a cadre of companies and banks, mostly big, united by an enviable access to credit. At the other end are firms, chiefly small, with slumping sales that can&#8217;t borrow or are facing stiff terms to do so.<\/p>\n<p>On Main Street, there are consumers with rock-solid jobs &#8212; but also legions of debt-strapped individuals struggling to keep their noses above water.<\/p>\n<p>This split helps explain the patchiness of the recovery that appears to be taking hold after the worst recession in a half-century.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB125150649639668499.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At one extreme of Corporate America is a cadre of companies and banks, mostly big, united by an enviable access to credit. At the other end are firms, chiefly small, with slumping sales that can&#8217;t borrow or are facing stiff<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=14689\">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":[40,50,209,149,596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-economy","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14689","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=14689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}