{"id":326,"date":"2017-03-05T22:40:53","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T03:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/?p=326"},"modified":"2017-03-05T22:40:53","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T03:40:53","slug":"housing-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/willa-cather-novel\/housing-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Housing Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first 60 pages of <em>Nickel and Dimed <\/em>tell us enough about the lack of housing among lower-wage workers during the year of\u00a01998-2000. As Barbara started her project by working as a restaurant sever\u00a0in\u00a0Key West,\u00a0she has learnt that the majority of\u00a0her co-workers\u00a0do not have proper or affordable houses to live in. Some of them have to stay in a rental\u00a0trailer or even on a boat (25). Some have to\u00a0unwantedly stay in\u00a0a hotel room since they really\u00a0need to have a\u00a0comfortable place to lay on after an exhausted working day. In this case, if they earn $8\u00a0per hour,\u00a0they barely live their life because they have to\u00a0pay around\u00a0$40\u00a0a night already\u00a0for the hotel room, which\u00a0takes up to 80% of their total income.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first 60 pages of Nickel and Dimed tell us enough about the lack of housing among lower-wage workers during the year of\u00a01998-2000. As Barbara started her project by working as a restaurant sever\u00a0in\u00a0Key West,\u00a0she has learnt that the majority of\u00a0her co-workers\u00a0do not have proper or affordable houses to live in. Some of them have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":393,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-willa-cather-novel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326","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\/393"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}