{"id":2127,"date":"2013-05-15T06:47:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T10:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=2127"},"modified":"2013-05-15T06:47:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T10:47:00","slug":"there-will-always-be-an-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/there-will-always-be-an-england\/","title":{"rendered":"There will always be an England…."},"content":{"rendered":"

so long as there is someone to worry about “class”….not good-taste-class but where-do-I-fit-in-class.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure I have this right but apparently the BBC is doing some major overhaul of class structure….deciding just who is upper and who is not.\u00a0 It prompted a very British rumination by one journalist (and clearly journalists are not “upper”):<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.thisisdevon.co.uk\/Impossibility-putting-farmers-classification\/story-18662621-detail\/story.html#axzz2Q3U2zE61<\/a><\/p>\n

Actually, having spent quite a bit of time in England, my experience has been that most people don’t have any time for this any longer….except perhaps for the newly-rich.<\/p>\n

But it also reminds me of something I read awhile back: that up until World War II in the United States, family farm income was equal to a doctor’s pay.\u00a0 The farmer may be forgiven for concluding that working harder and being more productive\u00a0doesn’t necessarily equal compensation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

so long as there is someone to worry about “class”….not good-taste-class but where-do-I-fit-in-class. I’m not sure I have this right but apparently the BBC is doing some major overhaul of class structure….deciding just who is upper and who is not.\u00a0 It prompted a very British rumination by one journalist (and clearly journalists are not “upper”): http:\/\/www.thisisdevon.co.uk\/Impossibility-putting-farmers-classification\/story-18662621-detail\/story.html#axzz2Q3U2zE61 Actually, having spent quite a bit of time in England, my experience has been that most people don’t have any time for this any longer….except perhaps for the newly-rich. But it also reminds me of something I read awhile back: that up until World War II in the United States, family farm income was equal to a doctor’s pay.\u00a0 The farmer may be forgiven for concluding that working harder and being more productive\u00a0doesn’t necessarily equal compensation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-england"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2128,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2127\/revisions\/2128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}