{"id":939,"date":"2001-05-08T20:31:28","date_gmt":"2001-05-08T20:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soulhuntre.com\/items\/date\/2001\/05\/08\/working-classes-an-article-and\/"},"modified":"2001-05-08T20:31:28","modified_gmt":"2001-05-08T20:31:28","slug":"working-classes-an-article-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/2001\/05\/08\/working-classes-an-article-and\/","title":{"rendered":"Working Classes An article and"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/unbound\/fallows\/jf2001-05-02\/\">Working Classes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>An article and interview with the author of a book that seems to have a big problem with how people make a living. The author spent three months trying to live on what she made at various low-wage jobs and now thinks she has the cross of the world to hold.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;I&#8217;ll introduce this book, and its potential importance, with two comparisons, one of which could annoy you. The non-annoying one is Michael Harrington&#8217;s The Other America, published in the early 1960s. The other is John Howard Griffin&#8217;s Black Like Me, published at about the same time. What the books had in common was making white, affluent Americans of the Kennedy-Johnson era say to one another, &#8220;Wait a minute! You mean, everyone isn&#8217;t living the Ozzie and Harriet lifestyle? You mean, there are still a lot of poor people in Appalachia, and that even after Sidney Poitier, the Negro still does not get a fair shake?&#8221; The two books are very different in their tone, and Harrington&#8217;s is seen as the classier in retrospect. But both helped the influential part of American society imagine what the lives of those they didn&#8217;t see each day could be like&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Working Classes An article and interview with the author of a book that seems to have a big problem with how people make a living. The author spent three months trying to live on what she made at various low-wage jobs and now thinks she has the cross of the world to hold. &#8220;&#8230;I&#8217;ll introduce [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":56261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[278],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}