{"id":4741,"date":"2016-03-16T11:45:35","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T15:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=4741"},"modified":"2016-03-16T11:56:26","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T15:56:26","slug":"defining-elitism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/?p=4741","title":{"rendered":"DEFINING DOWN ELITISM"},"content":{"rendered":"

In our society, you’re no longer an elitist if you’re a billionaire demanding cuts to the $15,000 per year Social Security benefits of retired wait staff–<\/p>\n

No, what now generally gets you called an elitist is having cultural interests that are not corporate profit centers.<\/p>\n

Therefore, it was doubly good that Obama referred to “Republican elites” when attributing blame for the rise of Trump.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In our society, you’re no longer an elitist if you’re a billionaire demanding cuts to the $15,000 per year Social Security benefits of retired wait staff– No, what now generally gets you called an elitist is having cultural interests that … Continue reading →<\/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-4741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4741","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=4741"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4743,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4741\/revisions\/4743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lobenthal.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}