{"id":18055,"date":"2019-03-19T16:45:24","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T23:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=18055"},"modified":"2019-03-19T16:45:24","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T23:45:24","slug":"the-99-percent-and-the-1-percent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2019\/03\/19\/the-99-percent-and-the-1-percent\/","title":{"rendered":"the 99 percent and the 1 percent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00c2\u00a0made a mental note of\u00c2\u00a0an article in The Atlantic (I think it was The Atlantic), one I didn&#8217;t read but could gauge the headline&#8217;s premise with the supposition that the details don&#8217;t matter &#8212; calling College Athletics a welfare program supporting the upper income classes.\u00c2\u00a0 Think about it: we know the assortment of people (and on scholarship) from &#8220;the hoods&#8221; and whatnot playing the high profile football and basketball &#8212; but what is the income base for a high school that has a water polo or rugby or equestrian sports program?<br \/>\nAs it were, as a new college scandal pops up &#8212; a star of Full House representative of someone paying her offspring into college off of a phony academic sports record! &#8211;\u00c2\u00a0 I now wonder if the writer for the Atlantic (I think it was the Atlantic) wasn&#8217;t trying for a bigger story, but couldn&#8217;t quite get the goods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u00c2\u00a0made a mental note of\u00c2\u00a0an article in The Atlantic (I think it was The Atlantic), one I didn&#8217;t read but could gauge the headline&#8217;s premise with the supposition that the details don&#8217;t matter &#8212; calling College Athletics a welfare program supporting the upper income classes.\u00c2\u00a0 Think about it: we know the assortment of people (and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18056,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18055\/revisions\/18056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}