{"id":37757,"date":"2013-08-09T05:00:56","date_gmt":"2013-08-09T10:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=37757"},"modified":"2013-08-08T15:49:53","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T20:49:53","slug":"eeyore-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=37757","title":{"rendered":"Eeyore Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/more-dems-than-republicans-53-27-say-american-dream-is-dead\/article\/2534019\">They don&#8217;t call it &#8220;Blue&#8221; America <\/a>for nothing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a new YouGov poll, 53 percent of Democrats say that the American dream is no longer achievable. By comparison, 55 percent of Republicans say the dream is still achievable. By the same percentage, 27 percent, Republicans think the dream is not achievable and Democrats do think it is.<\/p>\n<p>But when combined in a single question about the American Dream, the poll finds that the dream is slipping away in the minds of most Americans.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Republicans have faith in the idea of America; Democrats &#8211; according to this poll, and no, I don&#8217;t know the methodology, and just like all those &#8220;Democrats are teh smrt!&#8221; polls that leftybloggers like to gurgle and coo about like toddlers that just made nice pantses, it&#8217;s nothing you necessarily want to bank your retirement on.<\/p>\n<p>But it doesn&#8217;t flunk the sniff test, now, does it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They don&#8217;t call it &#8220;Blue&#8221; America for nothing: In a new YouGov poll, 53 percent of Democrats say that the American dream is no longer achievable. By comparison, 55 percent of Republicans say the dream is still achievable. By the same percentage, 27 percent, Republicans think the dream is not achievable and Democrats do think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37758,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37757\/revisions\/37758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}