{"id":12076,"date":"2016-11-11T13:37:36","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T19:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/?p=12076"},"modified":"2016-11-11T14:56:54","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T20:56:54","slug":"12076","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/11\/12076\/","title":{"rendered":"We must start asking all Americans to be their better selves."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/news\/opinion\/im-a-coastal-elite-from-the-midwest-the-real-bubble-is-rural-america#sthash.G8PTvsk1.dpuf&quot;\">&#8220;I\u2019m a Coastal Elite From the Midwest: The Real Bubble is Rural America&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div id=\"stcpDiv\">When you grow up in rural America, denying rights to people is an abstract concept. Denying marriage rights to gay people isn\u2019t that much different than denying boarding rights to Klingons.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"stcpDiv\">\n<p class=\"\">and real talk:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"\">What we are seeing is a reaction to a rapidly changing world. A world that is becoming more connected. A world that is more diverse. A world where education and skills are necessary for good jobs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Change has not been kind to the Midwest and rural America.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">And rather than embrace it, rural and white working-class Americans are twisting and turning, fighting it every step of the way. We will never return to the days where a white man could barely graduate high school and walk onto a factory floor at 18 and get a well-paying job for life. That hasn\u2019t set in for\u00a0much of the Midwest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">This doesn\u2019t mean that coastal Americans can\u2019t empathize more with their fellow Americans and try to find solutions to these problems (nor does it mean that there aren\u2019t many struggling working-class people in coastal states). And it certainly doesn\u2019t mean coastal Americans haven\u2019t contributed to this divisiveness.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from &#8220;I\u2019m a Coastal Elite From the Midwest: The Real Bubble is Rural America&#8221;: When you grow up in rural America, denying rights to people is an abstract concept. Denying marriage rights to gay people isn\u2019t that much different than denying boarding rights to Klingons. and real talk: What we are seeing is a reaction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12076"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12079,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12076\/revisions\/12079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookbinderlocal455.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}