{"id":9482,"date":"2011-12-30T14:56:03","date_gmt":"2011-12-30T19:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=9482"},"modified":"2011-12-30T14:56:03","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T19:56:03","slug":"compassionate-conservatism-an-open-letter-to-newt-gingrich-from-the-child-of-a-janitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2011\/12\/30\/compassionate-conservatism-an-open-letter-to-newt-gingrich-from-the-child-of-a-janitor\/","title":{"rendered":"Compassionate Conservatism? An Open Letter to Newt Gingrich From the Child of a Janitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of a friend on Facebook led me to the article <a title=\"Alternet Blog Article\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.alternet.org\/speakeasy\/2011\/12\/29\/compassionate-conservatism-an-open-letter-to-newt-gingrich-from-the-child-of-a-janitor\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Compassionate Conservatism? An Open Letter to Newt Gingrich From the Child of a Janitor<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On more than one occasion my father, a janitor, had to take up a collection for a student to send home to their family, to help them buy a ticket if there was an emergency, or to subsidize the funeral expenses for one of his crew, or the part-timers, who didn\u2019t have his years of seniority, and pay.<\/p>\n<p>No child could do that job.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Why is it so easy for a person like Newt Gingrich to forget the humanity behind the people he disparages?\u00a0 I suppose it is the same justification that applied to George W. Bush&#8217;s &#8220;compassionate conservatism&#8221;.\u00a0 If you don&#8217;t really know any people outside your &#8220;class&#8221;, it is easy to wage class warfare without realizing you are doing it.\u00a0 And that is being very\u00a0 charitable to Gingrich and Bush.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of a friend on Facebook led me to the article Compassionate Conservatism? An Open Letter to Newt Gingrich From the Child of a Janitor. On more than one occasion my father, a janitor, had to take up a collection for a student to send home to their family, to help them buy a [&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-9482","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\/9482","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=9482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9483,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9482\/revisions\/9483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}