{"id":13901,"date":"2014-03-09T13:14:58","date_gmt":"2014-03-09T12:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=13901"},"modified":"2014-03-09T13:14:58","modified_gmt":"2014-03-09T12:14:58","slug":"its-5-years-since-the-spirit-level-was-published","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=13901","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s 5 years since &#8220;The Spirit Level&#8221; was published"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most influential &#8211; of me and others &#8211; books that I have ever read is\u00a0<em>\u201cThe Spirit Level\u201d\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett (2009).<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0 I have reviewed this important work <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/currentaffairs.html#TSL\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In today&#8217;s &#8220;Observer&#8221; newspaper, the book&#8217;s authors have written an article to mark the fifth anniversary of publication of the work and argue that the evidence is greater than ever that substantial inequality causes a whole range of damaging social outcomes. You can read their article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2014\/mar\/09\/society-unequal-the-spirit-level\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most influential &#8211; of me and others &#8211; books that I have ever read is\u00a0\u201cThe Spirit Level\u201d\u00a0\u00a0by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett (2009).\u00a0 I have reviewed this important work here. In today&#8217;s &#8220;Observer&#8221; newspaper, the book&#8217;s authors have written an article to mark the fifth anniversary of publication of the work and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13901"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13905,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13901\/revisions\/13905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}