{"id":1645,"date":"2009-11-19T10:18:58","date_gmt":"2009-11-19T09:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1645"},"modified":"2009-11-19T10:18:58","modified_gmt":"2009-11-19T09:18:58","slug":"the-poor-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1645","title":{"rendered":"The poor of America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I&#8217;d read it in the English-language &#8220;Iran News&#8221; which I studied on my recent trip to that country, I might have thought that it was propaganda from a fiercely anti-American regime, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2009\/nov\/17\/millions-hungry-households-us-report\">the story<\/a> was in the British &#8220;Guardian&#8221; and the statistics are taken from an official US Government survey.<br \/>\nOne-sixth of the US population was found to be unable to afford enough food to stay healthy at some point last year. More than a million children regularly go to bed hungry in America.<br \/>\nThis is the situation in the richest country on earth.  This is the price of unregulated capitalism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I&#8217;d read it in the English-language &#8220;Iran News&#8221; which I studied on my recent trip to that country, I might have thought that it was propaganda from a fiercely anti-American regime, but the story was in the British &#8220;Guardian&#8221; and the statistics are taken from an official US Government survey. One-sixth of the US [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645","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=1645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}