{"id":318,"date":"2017-03-05T15:50:11","date_gmt":"2017-03-05T20:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/?p=318"},"modified":"2017-03-05T15:50:11","modified_gmt":"2017-03-05T20:50:11","slug":"barbaras-safety-net","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/barbara-ehrenreich\/barbaras-safety-net\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbara&#8217;s Safety Net"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regardless of the many problems I have with Barbara, I don&#8217;t understand the\u00a0reasoning for keeping her car, or at least using it to the extend which she does.\u00a0Most people in the working class don&#8217;t have the luxury of owning a car. They have to take public transportation, and if Barbara is so committed to living their lifestyle, why does she keep a car? I could understand if she held onto it in case of emergencies, but she uses it everyday to get to and from work. She claims that this decision was made because &#8220;a story about waiting for buses would not be very interesting to read&#8221; (5), but I don&#8217;t buy it. I feel like she was just being lazy. I personally think that including\u00a0travels on public transportation would have bettered her\u00a0story and increased its realism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regardless of the many problems I have with Barbara, I don&#8217;t understand the\u00a0reasoning for keeping her car, or at least using it to the extend which she does.\u00a0Most people in the working class don&#8217;t have the luxury of owning a car. They have to take public transportation, and if Barbara is so committed to living [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":389,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barbara-ehrenreich"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}