{"id":52887,"date":"2012-04-22T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2012-04-22T17:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=52887"},"modified":"2015-04-21T09:27:33","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T14:27:33","slug":"52887","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=52887","title":{"rendered":"Exodus!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s time for another round of fretting about “where all the young people going<\/a>?”<\/p>\n

I’ll let you read the article yourself. My responses?<\/p>\n

A) What “young adults” with options *don’t* strike out on their own to establish an identity separate from their parents?<\/p>\n

B) Its the economy, stupid. The “health” of MN’s economy is focused on Fortune 500s and Metro tech and high-value service companies. If neither is a kids field, why are they supposed to stay here? The pro sports? The article notes Minnesota already has a surplus of espresso shops, nightclubs, bike paths, and all the other shiny things that attract the young, urban, “creative class”. That’s because Minneapolis is already a great place for the “creative class”. It’s getting worse and worse for the “producer class”.<\/p>\n

C) Dear Millennials: you might wanna talk with your marketing department. You are rapidly turning more entitled and overweening than the baby boomers.<\/p>\n

That is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s time for another round of fretting about “where all the young people going?” I’ll let you read the article yourself. My responses? A) What “young adults” with options *don’t* strike out on their own to establish an identity separate from their parents? B) Its the economy, stupid. The “health” of MN’s economy is focused […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[308],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entitled-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52887","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=52887"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52918,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52887\/revisions\/52918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}