{"id":3432,"date":"2011-11-12T15:32:47","date_gmt":"2011-11-12T23:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/?p=3432"},"modified":"2011-11-12T15:32:47","modified_gmt":"2011-11-12T23:32:47","slug":"how-i-stopped-worrying-and-learned-to-love-the-ows-protests-politics-news-rolling-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/how-i-stopped-worrying-and-learned-to-love-the-ows-protests-politics-news-rolling-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the OWS Protests | Politics News | Rolling Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Taibbi gets it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There was a lot of snickering in media circles, even by me, when I heard the protesters talking about how Liberty Square was offering a model for a new society, with free food and health care and so on. Obviously, a bunch of kids taking donations and giving away free food is not a long-term model for a new economic system.<\/p>\n<p>But now, I get it. People want to go someplace for at least five minutes where no one is trying to bleed you or sell you something. It may not be a real model for anything, but it&#8217;s at least a place where people are free to dream of some other way for human beings to get along, beyond auctioned &#8220;democracy,&#8221; tyrannical commerce and the bottom line.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/news\/how-i-stopped-worrying-and-learned-to-love-the-ows-protests-20111110#ixzz1dNdkxIPb\">How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the OWS Protests | Politics News | Rolling Stone<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Taibbi gets it: There was a lot of snickering in media circles, even by me, when I heard the protesters talking about how Liberty Square was offering a model for a new society, with free food and health care and so on. Obviously, a bunch of kids taking donations and giving away free food is not a long-term model for a new economic system. But now, I get it. People want to go someplace for at least five minutes where no one is trying to bleed you or sell you something. It may not be a real model for &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-Tm","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3433,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3432\/revisions\/3433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}