{"id":59873,"date":"2016-08-12T05:00:19","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T10:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59873"},"modified":"2016-08-06T19:00:23","modified_gmt":"2016-08-07T00:00:23","slug":"scroogified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=59873","title":{"rendered":"Scroogified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I didn\u2019t need the revised economic numbers to tell me the economy was bad, I see it driving around town.\u00a0 Time was, you might see a panhandler at the top of a particularly busy freeway exit ramp.\u00a0 Nowadays, there are several working shifts plus more at stop lights in town.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">I wonder why there are so few stories in the mainstream media analyzing the Obama Administration policies that have created so many beggars, versus so many sob stories trying to shame me into giving more charitably.\u00a0 It\u2019s not working; the more they hector me, the more I feel like Ebenezer Scrooge: \u201cIs there no welfare, no homeless shelter?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Joe Doakes<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">The term &#8220;compassion fatigue&#8221; is becoming old and shopworn &#8211; but it hasn&#8217;t lost its meaning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: I didn\u2019t need the revised economic numbers to tell me the economy was bad, I see it driving around town.\u00a0 Time was, you might see a panhandler at the top of a particularly busy freeway exit ramp.\u00a0 Nowadays, there are several working shifts plus more at stop lights in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59873","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=59873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59883,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59873\/revisions\/59883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}