{"id":14324,"date":"2015-02-10T19:50:32","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T19:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-erosion-of-the-middle-class-he-said-has\/"},"modified":"2015-02-10T19:50:32","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T19:50:32","slug":"the-erosion-of-the-middle-class-he-said-has","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-erosion-of-the-middle-class-he-said-has\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cThe erosion of the middle class,\u201d he said, \u201chas put a lot more pressure on parents and students to make it big in the world or the consequences are dire.\u201d When Roth graduated from college, his father, who didn\u2019t go to college, wasn\u2019t concerned if his son ended up driving a cab for a while to figure things out. Now coffee shop baristas with a philosophy degree are subjects of mockery. \u201cThe confidence that the economy offers enough opportunities has eroded,\u201d Roth said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/grade-point\/wp\/2015\/02\/02\/whats-the-purpose-of-college-a-job-or-an-education\/\">Jeff Selingo: What\u2019s the purpose of college: A job or an education? &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a> Roth is the president of Wesleyan University.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe erosion of the middle class,\u201d he said, \u201chas put a lot more pressure on parents and students to make it big in the world or the consequences are dire.\u201d When Roth graduated from college, his father, who didn\u2019t go to college, wasn\u2019t concerned if his son ended up driving a cab for a while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-3J2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}