{"id":4106,"date":"2008-12-01T01:00:29","date_gmt":"2008-12-01T06:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=4106"},"modified":"2010-11-24T22:46:32","modified_gmt":"2010-11-25T03:46:32","slug":"above-it-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/12\/01\/above-it-all\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAbove It All\u201d: Homeownership and Class Privilege"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This ad &#8212; found at the height of the foreclosure crisis in a magazine for the obscenely rich &#8212; points out that, for obscenely rich people, the crisis is a bonus.\u00a0 What struck me most was the double meaning in the headline. &#8220;Above It All&#8221; has both descriptive and moral meaning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It is also a good example of how the rich see the economic struggle of the masses as an &#8220;opportunity&#8221; to get richer.<\/p>\n<p>Text below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/11\/above-it-all.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4105\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/11\/above-it-all.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"688\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Text:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Above It All.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the headlines, high-end properties still in demand among affluent set.<\/p>\n<p>What do recent headlines proclaiming a dip the [sic.] current real estate market mean for upper-income vacation-home buyers? Opportunity! A survey released in April by American Express and Harrison Group revealed that among Americans with a household income of more than $500,000, 77 percent say real estate presents a &#8216;real opportunity&#8217; right now, and 40 percent say they&#8217;re in the market for property this year. Of those in the market, 33 percent are looking for a second home, and 25 percent are looking for a third.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This ad &#8212; found at the height of the foreclosure crisis in a magazine for the obscenely rich &#8212; points out that, for obscenely rich people, the crisis is a bonus.\u00a0 What struck me most was the double meaning in the headline. &#8220;Above It All&#8221; has both descriptive and moral meaning.\u00a0 It is also a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,36],"class_list":["post-4106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-class","tag-economics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4106"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29948,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4106\/revisions\/29948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}