{"id":270,"date":"2006-06-09T23:59:36","date_gmt":"2006-06-10T07:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willdoherty.org\/wordpress\/?p=270"},"modified":"2006-06-09T23:59:36","modified_gmt":"2006-06-10T07:59:36","slug":"first-impressions-on-return-to-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/?p=270","title":{"rendered":"First Impressions on Return to United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My first impressions on returning to the United States&#8211;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m still hearing Portuguese chatter even when people aren&#8217;t speaking it.<\/li>\n<li>Three obese passengers requested &#8220;extenders&#8221; on the plane so they could buckle their seatbelts.<\/li>\n<li>I had a discussion with a guitarist named Mary in the Dallas &#8211; Fort Worth airport about political, economic, and social problems in the United States:<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>Medical care disappearing<\/li>\n<li>Education system failing<\/li>\n<li>Corporate control of media<\/li>\n<li>Cost of taxpayers of wars &#8212; corporate lobbying and profiteering<\/li>\n<li>Effect on cost of travel abroad<\/li>\n<li>Intense effects on workers of corporate welfare capitalism &#8212; multiple jobs, long commutes, no time for political awareness or participation<\/li>\n<li>Concentration of increasingly immense portion of all wealth in decreasing proportion of the population<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li>Time to buy land abroad?<\/li>\n<li>Bloated faces of U.S. pod people \ud83d\ude09<\/li>\n<li>People don&#8217;t touch each other as much in non-sexual contexts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first impressions on returning to the United States&#8211; I&#8217;m still hearing Portuguese chatter even when people aren&#8217;t speaking it. Three obese passengers requested &#8220;extenders&#8221; on the plane so they could buckle their seatbelts. I had a discussion with a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/?p=270\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,38,39,57,115,228],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brazil","category-civil-liberties","category-civil-rights","category-economics","category-human-rights","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardustdoherty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}