{"id":1454,"date":"2004-07-22T11:15:51","date_gmt":"2004-07-22T15:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/nateptest\/2004\/07\/22\/shocking-just-shocking\/"},"modified":"2004-07-22T11:15:51","modified_gmt":"2004-07-22T15:15:51","slug":"shocking-just-shocking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/2004\/07\/22\/shocking-just-shocking\/","title":{"rendered":"Shocking, just shocking&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a375'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/politics\/conventions\/articles\/2004\/07\/22\/on_marriage_delegates_go_beyond_candidates\/\">convention delegates seem to support gay marriage at a much higher level<\/a> than the general population.<\/p>\n<p>Duh.&nbsp; They&#8217;re Democrats.&nbsp; And, unlike the ticket, they don&#8217;t<br \/>\nhave to get elected against an incumbent &#8220;war president&#8221; who&#8217;s made<br \/>\ncultural issues the focus of the election.&nbsp; What&#8217;s truly appalling<br \/>\nis that he and his party have succeeded to the extent that one can no<br \/>\nlonger address economic disparity issues without being called a &#8220;class<br \/>\nwarrior.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Class&#8221; has become the dirty-word, third rail of American national<br \/>\npolitics.&nbsp; And yet, we know that one of the most predictive<br \/>\nindicators of people&#8217;s political beliefs (apart from a candidate) is<br \/>\nsocio-economic class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The convention delegates seem to support gay marriage at a much higher level than the general population. Duh.&nbsp; They&#8217;re Democrats.&nbsp; And, unlike the ticket, they don&#8217;t have to get elected against an incumbent &#8220;war president&#8221; who&#8217;s made cultural issues the focus of the election.&nbsp; What&#8217;s truly appalling is that he and his party have succeeded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politicks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5G3PH-ns","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}