{"id":1317,"date":"2009-09-03T08:53:27","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T15:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=1317"},"modified":"2009-09-03T08:53:27","modified_gmt":"2009-09-03T15:53:27","slug":"americas-got-no-class-ie-its-a-class-bound-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2009\/09\/03\/americas-got-no-class-ie-its-a-class-bound-society\/","title":{"rendered":"America&#8217;s got no class; i.e., it&#8217;s a class-bound society."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About a week ago, someone on MetaFilter posted a link to Wal-Mart People, the photo blog that mocks people who, wittingly or not, draw too much attention to themselves while shopping at Wal-Mart. These eccentrics or &#8220;walcreatures&#8221; have the nerve to not hide themselves despite lacking the bodies, hairstyles and clothing that the editors find appropriate. (They lack &#8220;class&#8221; \u2013\u00a0or &#8220;good&#8221; money.)<\/p>\n<p>The link on MetaFilter was flagged as offensive and summarily deleted. For the last three days, it&#8217;s been one of the hot trending items in Google search. Apparently, we all can&#8217;t get enough of ourselves. <\/p>\n<p>I would love to see what the voting profile is for everyone who has passed the web site on, approvingly, to a friend \u2013\u00a0&#8220;freakshow!&#8221; I&#8217;d bet $50 it&#8217;s an even split between Democrats and Republicans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a week ago, someone on MetaFilter posted a link to Wal-Mart People, the photo blog that mocks people who, wittingly or not, draw too much attention to themselves while shopping at Wal-Mart. These eccentrics or &#8220;walcreatures&#8221; have the nerve to not hide themselves despite lacking the bodies, hairstyles and clothing that the editors find&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}