{"id":3855,"date":"2010-02-03T22:55:34","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T03:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=3855"},"modified":"2010-02-03T22:55:34","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T03:55:34","slug":"were-counting-on-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/03\/were-counting-on-you\/","title":{"rendered":"we&#8217;re counting on you&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Coming Friday, the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bls.gov\/\"><strong><font color=\"#200020\">monthly unemployment figures<\/font><\/strong><\/a> for January&#8230;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"277\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/images\/unemp_01_10.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"92\" hspace=\"4\" height=\"129\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/t1.gstatic.com\/images?q=tbn:vCkFu55LVgxw1M:http:\/\/brownbonkey.com\/groundhog.jpg\" \/>As much as we talk about the causes for this recession, or the ways we might get out of it, it&#8217;s hard to look at this graph without wondering if there isn&#8217;t something about it that evades our understanding &#8211; like there&#8217;s something out there that says, &quot;Slow down and rethink what you&#8217;re doing.&quot; Something that won&#8217;t let up until we change our ways. Having proposed this retro-spiritual theory of our capitalist economy, I&#8217;m obligated to make a prediction &#8211; but humbled by the fact that America&#8217;s groundhogs are all out of sync this year. Will I go with the famous Punxsutawney Phil or stick with Georgia&#8217;s own General Beau Lee? I think I&#8217;m going for optimism and sticking with our southern star, General Beau Lee. So I&#8217;m looking for a beginning fall in the unemployment rate this Friday [and an early spring]&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming Friday, the monthly unemployment figures for January&#8230; As much as we talk about the causes for this recession, or the ways we might get out of it, it&#8217;s hard to look at this graph without wondering if there isn&#8217;t something about it that evades our understanding &#8211; like there&#8217;s something out there that says, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}