{"id":343,"date":"2017-03-22T14:55:53","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T18:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/?p=343"},"modified":"2017-03-22T14:55:53","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T18:55:53","slug":"nickel-and-dimed-96-178","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/barbara-ehrenreich\/nickel-and-dimed-96-178\/","title":{"rendered":"Nickel and Dimed 96-178"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While exploring the possibility of migrating to California&#8217;s Central Valley, Ehrenreich mentions her worry that, &#8220;&#8230;Latinos might be hogging the crap jobs and substandard housing for themselves, as they so often do&#8221;(121). For me, this passage was startling as it denotes yet another instance in which Ehrenreich does not clearly show her intentions. With a such a rash generalization, I first thought this statement was satire. She is thus illuminating the flaws in such generalizations regarding &#8220;Latinos&#8221; and minimum wage labor. However, Ehrenreich later uses this statement as reasoning for her choice to live in Minnesota, not California. If this is not a satire, why then has she not provided stats to backup such a generalized, potentially hurtful and untrue statement?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While exploring the possibility of migrating to California&#8217;s Central Valley, Ehrenreich mentions her worry that, &#8220;&#8230;Latinos might be hogging the crap jobs and substandard housing for themselves, as they so often do&#8221;(121). For me, this passage was startling as it denotes yet another instance in which Ehrenreich does not clearly show her intentions. With a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":402,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343","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\/343","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\/402"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}