{"id":1462,"date":"2016-02-01T23:03:02","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T23:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coolsociology.net\/SOAN324WP\/?p=1462"},"modified":"2018-07-31T21:23:47","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T21:23:47","slug":"how-far-would-you-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/?p=1462","title":{"rendered":"How far would you go?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is money? What does it get you? If you only had $2 a day to live off of how would you survive? These are questions many of us do not know the answer to because our lives are privileged and we do not have to face the problem of not having enough. The book <em>$2 A Day <\/em>by Katherine Edin and Luke Shaefer shows the struggles of how to survive off of $2 a day.<\/p>\n<p>In short the struggles the people in the stories go through are how to apply for welfare and also qualify to get welfare\/food stamps, because if you did not know welfare is pretty much extinct. Other struggles these people face are finding a safe place for them and their family to live. Specifically in one story a mother and her two children were living with her uncle and she came home to her uncle raping her daughter so they went from having a home (even though it was unsafe) to being back on the streets.<\/p>\n<p>In addition imagine you are ten years old again\u2026what would be your biggest concern at that time in your life? For one of the people in this book her parents had left her alone on the streets at the age of ten and she had to figure out how to live and grow up. This to me was a reality check that nothing in my life is that bad and horrible and that when I have a bad day I need to take a step back and realize my problems are very miniscule compared to most peoples.<\/p>\n<p>How far would you go to survive if you had $2 a day? The conclusions these people come up with are extreme. So\u2026what would you do?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is money? What does it get you? If you only had $2 a day to live off of how would you survive? These are questions many of us do not know the answer to because our lives are privileged and we do not have to face the problem of not having enough. The book &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/?p=1462\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How far would you go?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p47OlK-nA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1463,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462\/revisions\/1463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}