{"id":5180,"date":"2018-08-01T15:12:50","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T21:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.eastfist.com\/?p=5180"},"modified":"2018-08-01T15:12:50","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T21:12:50","slug":"what-its-like-to-be-poor-a-soliloquy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/01\/what-its-like-to-be-poor-a-soliloquy\/","title":{"rendered":"What it&#8217;s like to be poor? A Soliloquy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_5186\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5186\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.eastfist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/purse-3548021_1280.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.eastfist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/purse-3548021_1280-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Empty Wallet\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5186\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5186\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Empty Wallet<\/figcaption><\/figure>What it&#8217;s like to be poor?<br \/>\nBy Chongchen Saelee<\/p>\n<p>What it&#8217;s like to be poor?<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re always frowning<br \/>\nYour neck&#8217;s always itching like a dog<br \/>\nYour clothes don&#8217;t fit<\/p>\n<p>You got The Beach Boys Greatest Hits on your mind<br \/>\nBut you don&#8217;t have a smartphone to listen to any of them<br \/>\nYour last dollar was spent on something foolish<br \/>\nLike a lottery ticket instead of a cheeseburger<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re sleeping on the floor<br \/>\nAnd your face is a globe for flies<br \/>\nAnd you don&#8217;t have the energy to clap along<br \/>\nTo the hum of the insects wings buzzing by your ear<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>You work, but it&#8217;s never enough<br \/>\nYou look too dark or you talk too white<br \/>\nYou have a college degree but you&#8217;re over-qualified<br \/>\nYou weren&#8217;t born into the right family<\/p>\n<p>Your parents are dead<br \/>\nYou got no friends<br \/>\nYour dog got ran over by a truck last month<br \/>\nYour ex-wife ran off with a gigolo<br \/>\nThe rats stole your last canned tuna<\/p>\n<p>And there is piss on the newspaper<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s it like to be poor?<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s always dreaming of being rich<br \/>\nThen all my problems will go away<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What it&#8217;s like to be poor? By Chongchen Saelee What it&#8217;s like to be poor? You&#8217;re always frowning Your neck&#8217;s always itching like a dog Your clothes don&#8217;t fit You got The Beach Boys Greatest Hits on your mind But you don&#8217;t have a smartphone to listen to any of them Your last dollar was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artistic","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastfist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}