{"id":1033,"date":"2012-01-23T01:43:37","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T06:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=1033"},"modified":"2012-01-10T08:51:10","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T13:51:10","slug":"the-rich-poor-travel-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2012\/01\/the-rich-poor-travel-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rich-Poor Travel Gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>The rich-poor gap widens in the area of travel. Seeing other places and other people is a big experience that the rich enjoy and the poor lack.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I live in Fairfax County, Virginia. This is one of the richest counties in America. I noticed recently that the kids in high school and college in Fairfax County travel to other countries.<\/p>\n<p>When I graduated college, I had been to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tiajuana\">Tijuana<\/a> to shop for novelties. I was poor in experience and knowledge of other places and other peoples. About the only way that the poor in America travel to other countries is to go fight a war. That isn&#8217;t much fun and seems to present a one-dimensional view of other people.<\/p>\n<p>Is this a big deal? In some ways it is. Should we do something about it, i.e., should we have government travel subsidies for the poor? I don&#8217;t think so. I do think we should recognize what is happening and understand how this affects the outlook of people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips The rich-poor gap widens in the area of travel. Seeing other places and other people is a big experience that the rich enjoy and the poor lack. I live in Fairfax County, Virginia. This is one of the richest counties in America. I noticed recently that the kids in high school and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,90],"tags":[139,207],"class_list":["post-1033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-education","tag-culture","tag-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions\/1034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}