{"id":4682,"date":"2016-02-23T12:58:22","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T17:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=4682"},"modified":"2016-03-11T19:19:18","modified_gmt":"2016-03-12T00:19:18","slug":"scary-disconnect-elites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=4682","title":{"rendered":"THE SCARY DISCONNECT OF THE ELITES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Reich <a href=\"http:\/\/robertreich.org\/post\/139811651355\">describes<\/a> &#8220;a\u00a0 respected political insider&#8221;&#8216;s take on the U.S. today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe economy is in good shape,\u201d he said. \u201cMost Americans are better off than they\u2019ve been in years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Reich writes that &#8220;The establishment doesn\u2019t see what\u2019s happening because it has cut itself off from the lives of most Americans. It also doesn\u2019t wish to understand, because that would mean acknowledging its role in bringing all this on.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Reich describes &#8220;a\u00a0 respected political insider&#8221;&#8216;s take on the U.S. today. \u201cThe economy is in good shape,\u201d he said. \u201cMost Americans are better off than they\u2019ve been in years.&#8221; Reich writes that &#8220;The establishment doesn\u2019t see what\u2019s happening because &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=4682\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4682"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4727,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4682\/revisions\/4727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}