{"id":349,"date":"2008-12-04T18:11:40","date_gmt":"2008-12-05T00:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/?p=349"},"modified":"2026-08-31T18:49:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T00:49:17","slug":"a-poor-standard-of-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/a-poor-standard-of-living\/","title":{"rendered":"A &#8220;Poor&#8221; Standard of Living"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been said before that the poor and homeless in America have a better standard of living than the poor and homeless in other countries. How you can be poor and still have two or three TVs, cell phones, and computers beats me.<\/p>\n<p>Now the homeless (who used to be called bums in another era) are taking it to a &#8220;whole &#8216;nother level&#8221;. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/28679030@N07\/3076728814\/\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a>&#8216;s a picture of a homeless guy with the obligatory cardboard sign begging for money. The kicker here is that he&#8217;s listed his email address and is asking for donations via PayPal.<\/p>\n<p>While he can get computer access free from a public library, you have to have a checking account in order to get funds from PayPal.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a good chance that this is a hoax. But if it&#8217;s not it says a lot about our society; it must be working or he wouldn&#8217;t be doing it.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, my point is that even the &#8220;homeless&#8221; in our country have a better standard of living than the homeless in other countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been said before that the poor and homeless in America have a better standard of living than the poor and homeless in other countries. How you can be poor and still have two or three TVs, cell phones, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/a-poor-standard-of-living\/\">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":[6,14],"tags":[16,17,94,95],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-society","tag-homeless","tag-paypal","tag-politics","tag-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":823,"href":"https:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions\/823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenharness.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}