{"id":137,"date":"2006-11-11T13:45:02","date_gmt":"2006-11-11T17:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/11\/the-disease-called-poverty\/"},"modified":"2006-11-11T13:45:02","modified_gmt":"2006-11-11T17:45:02","slug":"the-disease-called-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/11\/the-disease-called-poverty\/","title":{"rendered":"The Disease called Poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;d like to know:<\/p>\n<p>For how long can a person be really really poor and still actually one day not live in poverty?<\/p>\n<p>There are plenty of overnight success stories floating around and the ever present protestant work ethic mentality:  if you work hard you will succeed.  But how many of the success stories are mythical?  The work ethic is bogus &#8211; plenty of people work really really hard and never get above the poverty line.  Having money comes from many things, very little of that is working hard.<\/p>\n<p>Is there ever a point where people have been so poor for so long that they can&#8217;t even contemplate how much money it would take to change lifestyles?  Does the time come when scrimping and saving and cutting corners becomes so ingrained that new ways of thinking are impossible?  <\/p>\n<p>There are stories that float around of people who died and then are discovered to have been rich, but they lived in such a way that no one would ever have known.  Did they get so used to being poor that anything else was too alien?<\/p>\n<p>What is the cure for poverty and poverty-mentality?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;d like to know: For how long can a person be really really poor and still actually one day not live in poverty? There are plenty of overnight success stories floating around and the ever present protestant work ethic mentality: if you work hard you will succeed. But how many of the success [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.femilicious.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}