{"id":314,"date":"2010-05-28T21:26:47","date_gmt":"2010-05-29T01:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=314"},"modified":"2010-05-28T21:39:35","modified_gmt":"2010-05-29T01:39:35","slug":"i-dont-understand-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=314","title":{"rendered":"I don&#8217;t understand&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;was just sitting here thinking tonight..(yeah, I know, that&#8217;s dangerous) that I don&#8217;t really recognize what this country has become..or what it&#8217;s people have become over my lifetime&#8230;.maybe it&#8217;s just a perspective thing on my part but I really do think we&#8217;ve lost our way. And, I think that some of the posts that I&#8217;ve written have added to the polarization that I think has taken away our Americanness and continues to be part of the wall that keeps us from finding our way back. That&#8217;s not to say that I&#8217;m going to stop writing about my particular way of looking at the world and venting my outrage&#8230;and won&#8217;t apologize about. <\/p>\n<p>How have we allowed corporations to have so much power over our everyday lives? nope not feeling it right now&#8230;more later&#8230;okay&#8230;back now&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Corporations have the power to destroy our environment, to take away our jobs, to buy our elected officials, and run roughshod over American&#8217;s lives and the people that are getting screwed keep electing officials that help them do that. Have we become so stupid that we can&#8217;t even think in our own self interest? <\/p>\n<p>This one is not as lucid that I envisioned when I started it&#8230;just not feeling as sharp as normal tonight&#8230;.oh, well&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;was just sitting here thinking tonight..(yeah, I know, that&#8217;s dangerous) that I don&#8217;t really recognize what this country has become..or what it&#8217;s people have become over my lifetime&#8230;.maybe it&#8217;s just a perspective thing on my part but I really do think we&#8217;ve lost our way. And, I think that some of the posts that I&#8217;ve &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=314\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I don&#8217;t understand&#8230;<\/span> <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":[10],"tags":[89],"class_list":["post-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-corporations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions\/316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}