{"id":582,"date":"2011-10-14T09:35:37","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T14:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/?p=582"},"modified":"2011-10-14T09:35:37","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T14:35:37","slug":"is-china-the-new-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/?p=582","title":{"rendered":"Is China The New US?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting articles this morning. Three years ago, 16% of Chinese said there in the past year that they couldn&#8217;t provide food for themselves or their family, compared with Americans at 9%.<\/p>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s the <a title=\"Yahoo News - More Americans Than Chinese Can't Put Food On The Table\" href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/blogs\/lookout\/more-americans-chinese-t-put-food-table-132752601.html\" target=\"_blank\">complete opposite<\/a>. 6% of Chinese say they couldn&#8217;t feed their family in the past year, where as 19% of Americans said it.<\/p>\n<p>Also the news has it that <a title=\"Yahoo News - Gap Closing Stores In US\" href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/gap-closing-stores-us-220816100.html\" target=\"_blank\">GAP is closing stores in the US<\/a> in order to expand to China.<\/p>\n<p>What the hell is going on? Is the United States not a first world country anymore?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting articles this morning. Three years ago, 16% of Chinese said there in the past year that they couldn&#8217;t provide food for themselves or their family, compared with Americans at 9%. Now it&#8217;s the complete opposite. 6% of Chinese say they couldn&#8217;t feed their family in the past year, where as 19% of Americans said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,6,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-politics","category-quickie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":583,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions\/583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}