{"id":3113,"date":"2008-09-26T10:23:07","date_gmt":"2008-09-26T15:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=3113"},"modified":"2008-09-26T10:23:50","modified_gmt":"2008-09-26T15:23:50","slug":"finger-pointing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/?p=3113","title":{"rendered":"Finger pointing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an interesting conversation yesterday, I was surprised to learn that some folks feel it is the fault of the people who offered credit, and not those who sought credit, as to why we, as a country, as a global community, are in this financial mess. Come, come &#8211; if someone offers me the ability to borrow more than I have the means to pay back, am I blameless for taking it? <\/p>\n<p>We all have a responsibility to this country. If we have to shoulder the burden that comes from having partied too long &#8211; then so it is &#8211; what we don&#8217;t want is for us commoners to have to go home from the party while the Mr. Fishmans and his ilk continue the two-step from dusk till dawn. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interesting conversation yesterday, I was surprised to learn that some folks feel it is the fault of the people who offered credit, and not those who sought credit, as to why we, as a country, as a global community, are in this financial mess. Come, come &#8211; if someone offers me the ability to borrow more than I have the means to pay back, am I blameless for taking it? We all have&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-Od","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}