{"id":351,"date":"2017-03-26T22:44:16","date_gmt":"2017-03-27T02:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/?p=351"},"modified":"2017-03-26T22:44:55","modified_gmt":"2017-03-27T02:44:55","slug":"interesting-ehrenreich-passage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/barbara-ehrenreich\/interesting-ehrenreich-passage\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Ehrenreich Passage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found the passage about her alter-ego Barb on page 169 particularly interesting. Here, she claims that the Barbara from her normal life and the Barb who works at Walmart are completely different people. Barb, she explains, is &#8220;meaner and slyer&#8221; than she is. While this passage stands out to me, I am having trouble deciding what exactly I think of it. On the one hand, it seems quite honest and understandable. On the other hand, it seems almost like she is claiming that minimum-wage workers are inferior (personality wise) to those with a higher income. What do you all think of this part?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found the passage about her alter-ego Barb on page 169 particularly interesting. Here, she claims that the Barbara from her normal life and the Barb who works at Walmart are completely different people. Barb, she explains, is &#8220;meaner and slyer&#8221; than she is. While this passage stands out to me, I am having trouble [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351","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\/351","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}