{"id":4377,"date":"2008-04-30T00:52:02","date_gmt":"2008-04-30T08:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/04\/30\/quote-the-poor-suffer-the-most\/"},"modified":"2008-04-30T00:52:02","modified_gmt":"2008-04-30T08:11:50","slug":"quote-the-poor-suffer-the-most","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4377","title":{"rendered":"Quote: &quot;The Poor Suffer The Most&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/scalzi.com\/whatever\/?p=676\">John Scalzi<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201cThe Poor Suffer the Most\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Used, for example, in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/24334375\/\">this news header today in a story about food shortages<\/a>: \u201cAs a brutal convergence of events hits an unprepared global market, and grain prices go sky high, the world\u2019s poor suffer most.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Really? The <em>poor <\/em>suffering the most? It\u2019s hard to imagine. Because, you know, usually when there\u2019s a major global crisis of any sort, it\u2019s the poor sitting there on the sidelines, going <em>whew, dodged <strong>that <\/strong>bullet.<\/em> How <em>strange <\/em>that the people the least economically, socially and educationally able to deal with wrenching change should suffer the most. How <em>odd <\/em>that the rich should so often be able to shield themselves from the ravages of events. It\u2019s almost as if they have some <em>advantage <\/em>over poor people, although off the top of my head what it might be escapes me.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From John Scalzi: \u201cThe Poor Suffer the Most\u201d Used, for example, in this news header today in a story about food shortages: \u201cAs a brutal convergence of events hits an unprepared global market, and grain prices go sky high, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4377\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-poverty-labor-related-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}