{"id":1958,"date":"2010-11-15T08:00:22","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T12:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/?p=1958"},"modified":"2012-12-17T11:04:50","modified_gmt":"2012-12-17T15:04:50","slug":"bookends-terror-and-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/bookends-terror-and-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Bookends: Terror and Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did 9-11 (2001) cause market crash, real estate crash, etc. If not immediately, did it change the approach\/attitude of enough Americans one way or another, such that the collective &#8220;american dream&#8221; changed &#8211; perhaps to a focus on the short-term. E.g., I&#8217;m going to live now; spend now. (Creditor-side error was in allowing to help people live this out.)<\/p>\n<p>Interesting tie-in to Obama&#8217;s campaign theme of &#8220;HOPE.&#8221; Really, it was hope that got us into the mess we are in now. What should have been the focus is fundamental values, contraction, living within means (as a country and as citizens), etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did 9-11 (2001) cause market crash, real estate crash, etc. If not immediately, did it change the approach\/attitude of enough Americans one way or another, such that the collective &#8220;american dream&#8221; changed &#8211; perhaps to a focus on the short-term. E.g., I&#8217;m going to live now; spend now. (Creditor-side error was in allowing to help [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1958"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3194,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958\/revisions\/3194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yugflog.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}