{"id":3850,"date":"2010-10-10T14:40:32","date_gmt":"2010-10-10T21:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=3850"},"modified":"2010-10-10T14:40:32","modified_gmt":"2010-10-10T21:40:32","slug":"nursing-homes-and-the-tea-party-of-palin-and-beck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2010\/10\/10\/nursing-homes-and-the-tea-party-of-palin-and-beck\/","title":{"rendered":"Nursing homes and the Tea Party of Palin and Beck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps if Americans treated their elders better the American elderly wouldn&#8217;t be so bitter. <\/p>\n<p>But when you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nap.edu\/openbook.php?record_id=653&#038;page=492\">alienate an entire community<\/a>, they will eventually turn to the politics of alienation: of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/09\/30\/AR2010093005267.html\">fear and loathing<\/a>, rather than honor and hope.<\/p>\n<p><strong>postscript<\/strong>: Will we get political sloganeering that calls out the White Hairs as a voting bloc, irrespective of race, gender or, perhaps, even class? And will they honor the political tradition of previous <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Whig_Party_(United_States)\">Whigs<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps if Americans treated their elders better the American elderly wouldn&#8217;t be so bitter. But when you alienate an entire community, they will eventually turn to the politics of alienation: of fear and loathing, rather than honor and hope. postscript: Will we get political sloganeering that calls out the White Hairs as a voting bloc,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3850"}],"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=3850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}