{"id":2530,"date":"2019-01-29T02:10:15","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T02:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coolsociology.net\/SOAN324WP\/?p=2530"},"modified":"2019-01-29T02:10:15","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T02:10:15","slug":"a-similar-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/?p=2530","title":{"rendered":"A similar world"},"content":{"rendered":"

After reading and discussing\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Barbara Ehrenreich\u2019s book, titled\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Nickel and Dimed: on Not Getting\u00a0<\/span><\/span>By<\/span><\/span>\u00a0In America<\/span><\/span>, I had a new found sympathy for the people going through these types of situations every day. Similarly, I grew up poor, we couldn\u2019t afford name brand shoes and everything I owned was used and from a swap meet, essentially a flea market. Being under the poverty line requires a different mindset, and a different form of surviving. Looking back, I never questioned why our family couldn\u2019t afford certain things. My father was unable to take any days off work, in order to make ends meet. And although we have managed to escape it, I don\u2019t take the privilege I\u2019ve gained for granted. He couldn\u2019t leave work early, it was money we desperately needed to pay the mortgage, and we were lucky enough to afford the one we have. These people who are stuck in the \u201ctrap\u201d that is poverty rarely escape. We are stuck without the best that the world has to offer because of financial struggle. I understood the struggle these people went though, and although I was a child during that time, I remember what my parents went through every day to make we ate every day. Like I said, I couldn\u2019t sympathize before, because all I ever thought about was how nice it was to not be them anymore. But I had to sit back and realize that it might as well been. If one decision wasn\u2019t made my family could have stayed in the situation we were in, and that the one we didn\u2019t have it as bad. Because at least we had healthcare, and a stable home environment. Working 40 hours a week won\u2019t get you anywhere, especially out of poverty.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After reading and discussing\u00a0Barbara Ehrenreich\u2019s book, titled\u00a0Nickel and Dimed: on Not Getting\u00a0By\u00a0In America, I had a new found sympathy for the people going through these types of situations every day. Similarly, I grew up poor, we couldn\u2019t afford name brand shoes and everything I owned was used and from a swap meet, essentially a flea … Continue reading A similar world<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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-2530","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-EO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530","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\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2531,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530\/revisions\/2531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}