{"id":5204,"date":"2012-09-06T02:52:35","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T02:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/?p=5204"},"modified":"2012-09-06T02:52:35","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T02:52:35","slug":"okay-okay-i-know-im-supposed-to-be-giving-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/?p=5204","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Okay, okay, I know I&#8217;m supposed to be giving you some fluffy yoga observations about Romney&#8217;s inner self here, but please let me beg just a second more to share with you another teeny tidbit from Pickett and Wilkinson. The point they make is that inequality is not only bad for people in that most of us wind up with less money\u2014it&#8217;s that inequality correlates with a panoply of public-health ills, including drug use, obesity, incarceration, depression, infant mortality, diminished trust in our fellow citizens, and on and on and on. In other words, inequalities in wealth and income are bound up in profound and complex ways with the health of the nation. And how someone who wants to be president of us all can forbid from public discourse all talk of this stuff, or dismiss it as &#8220;the bitter politics of envy,&#8221; calls into serious question the nature of Mitt Romney&#8217;s deeper self.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gq.com\/news-politics\/politics\/201208\/mitt-romney-wells-tower-gq-august-2012?printable=true\">Does Mitt Romney Have a Soul? &#8211; GQ August 2012: Politics: GQ<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, okay, I know I&#8217;m supposed to be giving you some fluffy yoga observations about Romney&#8217;s inner self here, but please let me beg just a second more to share with you another teeny tidbit from Pickett and Wilkinson. The point they make is that inequality is not only bad for people in that most <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/?p=5204\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblwise.cynwise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}