{"id":900,"date":"2011-03-08T16:11:07","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T21:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/?p=900"},"modified":"2011-03-08T16:11:07","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T21:11:07","slug":"premium-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/archives\/900","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;premium services&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times reports on, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eschatonblog.com\/2011\/03\/another-entry-in-lifestyles-of-not.html\">Atrios<\/a> says, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/03\/09\/business\/09bronxville.html?_r=1&#038;hp\">plight of the not quite rich enough<\/a>.  But I noticed this bit of End-Of-Empire detail:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Across the country, elected officials in privileged communities are caught between a fervor to hold down taxes and a fervor to maintain good schools, well-paved streets, an ample police force, generous library hours and other premium public services that set a community like Bronxville apart.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good schools, well-paved streets, an ample police force, and generous library hours: these are what constitute &#8220;premium services&#8221; in America, 2011.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times reports on, as Atrios says, the plight of the not quite rich enough. But I noticed this bit of End-Of-Empire detail: Across the country, elected officials in privileged communities are caught between a fervor to hold down taxes and a fervor to maintain good schools, well-paved streets, an ample police force, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/archives\/900\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;premium services&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":902,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions\/902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}