{"id":2121,"date":"2014-03-24T09:35:19","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T09:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/03\/24\/its-time-to-call-america-what-it-is-a\/"},"modified":"2015-01-04T17:06:50","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T16:06:50","slug":"its-time-to-call-america-what-it-is-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/03\/24\/its-time-to-call-america-what-it-is-a\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>It\u2019s time to call America what it is: a kleptocracy, run by corporations and governments with only cosmetic distinctions. It is full of good people whom the kleptocrats keep fighting against each other, as they have for over 150 years, and will until the good people drown in rising saltwater or epic storms, or simply die, exhausted and used up.<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"attribution\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/quinn-norton\/46de5b422182\">Cash Rules Everything Around Me \u2014 Notes from a Strange World \u2014 Medium<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>This depressed the hell out of me, but it\u2019s hard to argue with Norton\u2019s analysis.<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s time to call America what it is: a kleptocracy, run by corporations and governments with only cosmetic distinctions. It is full of good people whom the kleptocrats keep fighting against each other, as they have for over 150 years, and will until the good people drown in rising saltwater or epic storms, or simply &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/03\/24\/its-time-to-call-america-what-it-is-a\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[983],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-tumblr","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}