{"id":5686,"date":"2011-10-12T11:51:46","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T16:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/?p=5686"},"modified":"2011-10-12T11:51:46","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T16:51:46","slug":"one-college-senior-explains-financial-facts-to-the-wall-street-protesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=5686","title":{"rendered":"One college senior explains financial facts to the Wall Street protesters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/This-is-what-we-need.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5687\" title=\"This is what we need\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/This-is-what-we-need.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"459\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/This-is-what-we-need.jpg 459w, https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/This-is-what-we-need-283x300.jpg 283w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know this person, but I&#8217;d say this is the kind of thinking that&#8217;s going to save the next generation, not the thinking of those who borrowed foolishly and are now angry that they&#8217;re in debt.<\/p>\n<p>There was a time when this sort of thinking was ubiquitous in America (and probably around the world). But as people came to depend on governments &#8212; believing that they could demand whatever they wanted from the state and that the state would provide &#8212; this sort of thinking went out of style.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about being reasonable. It&#8217;s about being responsible. It&#8217;s about being independent. It needs to make a comeback, starting right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know this person, but I&#8217;d say this is the kind of thinking that&#8217;s going to save the next generation, not the thinking of those who borrowed foolishly and are now angry that they&#8217;re in debt. There was a time when this sort of thinking was ubiquitous in America (and probably around the world). <a href=\"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/?p=5686\" class=\"more-link\">Keep Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5686","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1x9iR-1tI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5686"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5695,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5686\/revisions\/5695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidmcelroy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}