{"id":523,"date":"2014-02-07T19:23:09","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T19:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coolsociology.net\/SOAN324WP\/?p=523"},"modified":"2014-07-13T05:36:02","modified_gmt":"2014-07-13T05:36:02","slug":"what-if-we-cared-about-those-living-in-poverty-as-much-as-we-care-about-celebrities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/?p=523","title":{"rendered":"What if we cared about those living in poverty as much as we care about celebrities?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.woodgreen.org\/Portals\/0\/Images\/Truth.jpg\" width=\"326\" height=\"466\" \/>I recently discovered through tumblr a project known as Homeward Bound, which is affiliated with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.woodgreen.org\/AboutUs.aspx\">Woodgreen Foundation <\/a>and is a part of United Way Toronto. This particular project focuses on the life of single mothers struggling with poverty, and suggests giving these women&#8217;s problems the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.woodgreen.org\/HomewardBound.aspx\"> proper representation<\/a> and time.<\/p>\n<p>I think these magazine manipulations are powerful, because a significant portion of society does care about celebrity gossip and tabloid news. I think this campaign cleverly critiques our society&#8217;s obsession with the wealthy and famous and flips this consumption of popular culture on its head.<\/p>\n<p>No doubt if we were exposed to the reality of poverty on a daily basis as we waited in lines at the grocery store where our eyes inevitably wander, we as a society would be much more enraged about the problem.<\/p>\n<p>[For more examples of the campaign&#8217;s pictures, click here: (<a href=\"http:\/\/cdn0.lostateminor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/24.jpg\">w<\/a>) (<a href=\"http:\/\/cdn0.lostateminor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/enhanced-buzz-27807-1390599526-20.jpg\">x<\/a>) (<a href=\"https:\/\/24.media.tumblr.com\/5f167c8e32433d7e54dcdc3b5c275098\/tumblr_n0cmebas5a1qf9q3lo3_1280.jpg\">y<\/a>) (<a href=\"http:\/\/cdn0.lostateminor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/17.jpg\">z<\/a>).]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently discovered through tumblr a project known as Homeward Bound, which is affiliated with Woodgreen Foundation and is a part of United Way Toronto. This particular project focuses on the life of single mothers struggling with poverty, and suggests giving these women&#8217;s problems the proper representation and time. I think these magazine manipulations are &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/?p=523\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What if we cared about those living in poverty as much as we care about celebrities?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[25,27,5,17,22,23,16,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-being-poor","category-books-and-films","category-news-link","category-organizations","category-people","category-portraits-of-homeless","category-poverty","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p47OlK-8r","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":534,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions\/534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcguire-spickard.com\/SOAN324WP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}