{"id":42919,"date":"2025-07-28T22:39:54","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T05:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=42919"},"modified":"2025-07-28T22:40:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T05:40:25","slug":"42919","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/07\/28\/42919\/","title":{"rendered":"James Baldwin on the cost of being poor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-96.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42920\" srcset=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-96.png 200w, https:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/image-96-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u201cAnyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor; and if one is a member of a captive population, economically speaking, one&#8217;s feet have simply been placed on the treadmill forever.\u201d<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2015&nbsp;<strong>James Baldwin,&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/work\/quotes\/38225\">Nobody Knows My Name<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>James Arthur Baldwin (August 2, 1924 &#8211; December 1, 1987) was an American writer and civil rights activist who garnered acclaim for his essays, novels, plays, and poems. His 1953 novel Go Tell It on the Mountain has been ranked by Time magazine as one of the top 100 English-language novels.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_Baldwin\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAnyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor; and if one is a member of a captive population, economically speaking, one&#8217;s feet have simply been placed on the treadmill forever.\u201d \u2015&nbsp;James Baldwin,&nbsp;Nobody Knows My Name James Arthur Baldwin (August 2, 1924 &#8211;&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/07\/28\/42919\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42919"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42919"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42922,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42919\/revisions\/42922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}