{"id":4724,"date":"2011-02-16T12:38:29","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T19:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=4724"},"modified":"2011-02-16T12:38:29","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T19:38:29","slug":"overheard-at-ord-what-about-us-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2011\/02\/16\/overheard-at-ord-what-about-us-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"Overheard at ORD: what about us Americans?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few minutes ago, I was sitting near two men in their 50s at an airport in Chicago. They were talking current events, headlines. The economy, the dollar. One was wearing a Cleveland Indians jersey. The other denim shorts. <\/p>\n<p>Their light banter, over light beers, drifted to immigrants. There was no vitriol, just frustration. Can&#8217;t turn them away, need to be kind to the less fortunate, one said, with a little sarcasm. What about us Americans, said the other.<\/p>\n<p>I sat less than an arms length away, an immigrant of sorts, wearing my expensive shoes, tapping away on emails about this or that business plan.<\/p>\n<p>They have good reason to resent me, I suppose. I&#8217;m a member of the white collar, executive, upper class. The class responsible \u2013\u00a0at least politically \u2013 for <a href=\"http:\/\/lanekenworthy.net\/2008\/03\/09\/the-best-inequality-graph\/\">stagnant wages<\/a> and a deficit of great ideas. The educated sons and daughters of immigrants entrusted with growing the pie and not just our own slices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few minutes ago, I was sitting near two men in their 50s at an airport in Chicago. They were talking current events, headlines. The economy, the dollar. One was wearing a Cleveland Indians jersey. The other denim shorts. Their light banter, over light beers, drifted to immigrants. There was no vitriol, just frustration. Can&#8217;t&#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\/4724"}],"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=4724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}