{"id":32762,"date":"2012-05-30T00:26:30","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T00:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/american_dream_faces_harsh_new_reality\/"},"modified":"2012-05-30T00:26:30","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T00:26:30","slug":"american_dream_faces_harsh_new_reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32762","title":{"rendered":"(NPR) American Dream Faces Harsh New Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American Dream is a crucial thread in this country&#8217;s tapestry, woven through politics, music and culture.<\/p>\n<p>Though the phrase has different meanings to different people, it suggests an underlying belief that hard work pays off and that the next generation will have a better life than the previous generation.<\/p>\n<p>But three years after the worst recession in almost a century, the American Dream now feels in jeopardy to many&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2012\/05\/29\/153513153\/american-dream-faces-harsh-new-reality\">Read or listen to it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Dream is a crucial thread in this country&#8217;s tapestry, woven through politics, music and culture. Though the phrase has different meanings to different people, it suggests an underlying belief that hard work pays off and that the next<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32762\">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":[39,40,101,149,133,600,597,98,129,596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-children","category-economy","category-history","category-housingreal-estate-market","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-marriage-family","category-psychology","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32762","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=32762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}