{"id":1456,"date":"2009-09-23T20:04:38","date_gmt":"2009-09-24T03:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=1456"},"modified":"2009-09-23T20:04:38","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T03:04:38","slug":"the-psychology-of-poverty-or-things-id-rather-read-about-than-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2009\/09\/23\/the-psychology-of-poverty-or-things-id-rather-read-about-than-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"The psychology of poverty, or, things I&#8217;d rather read about than experience."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Poverty makes some people insane,&#8221; writes Michael Gold, as quoted in an inspiring <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/arts\/critics\/books\/2009\/09\/21\/090921crbo_books_crain\">review of Depression Era art<\/a> in a recent issue of The New Yorker.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if some modern cultures are more adept at dealing with poverty than others. For example, Mexico. India. China. And if they are, what are the characteristics of a culture that affords dignity in the face of deprivation? <\/p>\n<p>(Dominant religious narratives of fatalism; predetermination with and without signs of grace. Hard social stratification. Wonderful parties.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Poverty makes some people insane,&#8221; writes Michael Gold, as quoted in an inspiring review of Depression Era art in a recent issue of The New Yorker. I wonder if some modern cultures are more adept at dealing with poverty than others. For example, Mexico. India. China. And if they are, what are the characteristics of&#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\/1456"}],"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=1456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}