{"id":21313,"date":"2015-07-26T09:40:28","date_gmt":"2015-07-26T13:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=21313"},"modified":"2015-07-26T09:40:28","modified_gmt":"2015-07-26T13:40:28","slug":"now-parents-have-a-bedtime-story-about-how-predatory-america-has-become","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/07\/26\/now-parents-have-a-bedtime-story-about-how-predatory-america-has-become\/","title":{"rendered":"Now Parents Have a Bedtime Story About How Predatory America Has Become"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Alternet<\/em> has the post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/books\/neighbors-hell-bedtime-story-parents-who-want-talk-about-how-predatory-america-has-become?sc=fb\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Alternet post\">Neighbors From Hell: Now Parents Have a Bedtime Story About How Predatory America Has Become<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIt came in a vision a few years back: a book for children that approximated some of the horrors of society that everyday people face, and the monstrous qualities that many people take on as they try to earn a living. Especially since the financial crisis. Mortgage loan officers, slumlords, private prison lobbyists are the new growth industry jobs.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/122669356\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" style=\"border:10px ridge #009900;\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<pre style=\"plain\">\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Fairy tales of yore had to invent fictional monsters to scare little children.  Is it a sign of progress that now all we have to do is to tell the truth to scare little children?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alternet has the post Neighbors From Hell: Now Parents Have a Bedtime Story About How Predatory America Has Become. It came in a vision a few years back: a book for children that approximated some of the horrors of society that everyday people face, and the monstrous qualities that many people take on as they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21313","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21314,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21313\/revisions\/21314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}