{"id":2779,"date":"2010-06-15T23:02:49","date_gmt":"2010-06-15T22:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=2779"},"modified":"2010-06-15T23:06:15","modified_gmt":"2010-06-15T22:06:15","slug":"the-spirit-level-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=2779","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Spirit Level&#8221; (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve now almost finished reading a fascinating book called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Spirit-Level-Societies-Almost-Always\/dp\/0141032367\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1275601660&amp;sr=8-1\">&#8220;The  Spirit Level&#8221;<\/a> by Richard Wilkinson &amp; Kate Pickett.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be reviewing the work on my web site when I&#8217;ve completed it, but meanwhile I urge you to check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/equalitytrust\/the-spirit-level-slides-from-the-equality-trust\">this PowerPoint presentation<\/a> of the main diagrams from the book (the information is easier to read if you click &#8216;full&#8217; at the bottom right).<\/p>\n<p>If you only look at one diagram, look at slide 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve now almost finished reading a fascinating book called &#8220;The Spirit Level&#8221; by Richard Wilkinson &amp; Kate Pickett. I&#8217;ll be reviewing the work on my web site when I&#8217;ve completed it, but meanwhile I urge you to check out this PowerPoint presentation of the main diagrams from the book (the information is easier to read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2779","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=2779"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2782,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2779\/revisions\/2782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}