{"id":11098,"date":"2016-11-15T08:36:26","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T12:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=11098"},"modified":"2016-11-15T08:36:26","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T12:36:26","slug":"they-no-longer-believe-they-have-agency-to-affect-their-own-circumstances-for-the-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=11098","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;they no longer believe they have agency to affect their own circumstances for the better&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hit the wall yesterday after meeting an Indian IT worker who was installing a new medical records system at Cape Cod Ortho.<\/p><p>I felt the kind of rage that drives people to acts of violence, chemical addiction, suicide.<\/p><p>The source of my fury is the undisputed fact that success comes from looks and personality, not BS factors like hard work or risk-taking.  I&#8217;m as trapped as a steel worker in Ohio or a coal miner in West Virginia, and by an elite, for sure, but not upper crust &#8220;liberals&#8221; per se.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hit the wall yesterday after meeting an Indian IT worker who was installing a new medical records system at Cape Cod Ortho.I felt the kind of rage that drives people to acts of violence, chemical addiction, suicide.The source of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=11098\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11099,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11098\/revisions\/11099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}