{"id":3199,"date":"2006-06-30T21:34:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-30T21:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3199"},"modified":"2011-07-02T08:11:07","modified_gmt":"2011-07-02T13:11:07","slug":"a-dig-a-day-keeps-ehrenreich-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/30\/a-dig-a-day-keeps-ehrenreich-away\/","title":{"rendered":"A Dig A Day Keeps Ehrenreich Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jane Galt <a href=\"http:\/\/www.janegalt.net\/blog\/archives\/005820.html\" target=\"_new\">digs<\/a> at Barbara Ehrenreich&#8217;s book <i>Nickeled and Dimed: On Not Getting By In America<\/i>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I read &#8220;Nickeled and Dimed&#8221;, and was impressed by its detailed description of life at the bottom . . . and completely unimpressed by its economic illiteracy, paternalistic snobbery about the people she worked with, disdain for her customers, bizarre fantasies about the motives of middle-class consumers, and her complete and total lack of even a vestigial sense of humour.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t even think I was impressed with its detailed description of life at the bottom because, as I recall, it didn&#8217;t have a palette that extended beyond grey and dark grey.<\/p>\n<p>A couple of years ago, I promised my wife I would write a detailed, scathing review of the book myself, but I&#8217;ve not yet gotten to it.  I&#8217;ll have to reread it before I can do so, but at least Ehrenreich won&#8217;t get more pennies out of me for rereading a book I already own.  But I bought the paperback edition I own new, dammit, so I bought Ehrenreich a couple milligrams of a doobie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jane Galt digs at Barbara Ehrenreich&#8217;s book Nickeled and Dimed: On Not Getting By In America: I read &#8220;Nickeled and Dimed&#8221;, and was impressed by its detailed description of life at the bottom . . . and completely unimpressed by its economic illiteracy, paternalistic snobbery about the people she worked with, disdain for her customers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9559,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3199\/revisions\/9559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}