{"id":2974,"date":"2010-09-06T21:54:29","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T02:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/?p=2974"},"modified":"2010-09-06T21:54:29","modified_gmt":"2010-09-07T02:54:29","slug":"be-afraid-be-very-afraid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/2010\/09\/06\/be-afraid-be-very-afraid\/","title":{"rendered":"Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This recession is a different animal than past incarnations.  Here&#8217;s a data point:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pre.cloudfront.goodinc.com\/posts\/post_full_1281992633foreclosures.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The supposed recovery is being slowed down by artificially constructed housing market.  We won&#8217;t see much progress until the damage of the last decade cycles through the system.  Meanwhile, I wonder how much government can really do to alleviate the pain.  Which I think it has some moral obligation to try to do&#8230; big soft lefty that I am. <\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.good.is\/post\/infographic-u-s-home-foreclosures-are-still-rising\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+good%2Flbvp+%28GOOD+Main+RSS+Feed%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\">Good Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This recession is a different animal than past incarnations. Here&#8217;s a data point: The supposed recovery is being slowed down by artificially constructed housing market. We won&#8217;t see much progress until the damage of the last decade cycles through the system. Meanwhile, I wonder how much government can really do to alleviate the pain. Which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8992,1142],"class_list":["post-2974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-foreclosure","tag-housing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2975,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2974\/revisions\/2975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}