{"id":2693,"date":"2016-10-26T12:50:06","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T11:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=2693"},"modified":"2016-10-26T12:50:06","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T11:50:06","slug":"the-peasants-of-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=2693","title":{"rendered":"The Peasants of the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent trip to the U.S. to visit the relatives, my wife tried to do shopping in one of the big malls and while watching her and the selections presented by the various stores I came to the conclusion that Americans are, or are being made into Peasants. I could not tell any difference in the selection of drab, shapeless sackcloth being presented by a various Macy&#8217;s, Dillard&#8217;s Nordstrom&#8217;s, J.C. Penny&#8217;s you name it, they were all the same. This was extending into the people wandering around the Mall, shapeless clothing. Tights on legs and bags on top. When the sharpest dressers were in Jeans and sneakers, that was saying a lot. <\/p>\n<p>Even in the restaurants, guys in T-Shirts, and women in baggy sacks. Peasants everywhere. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?attachment_id=2696\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2696\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/peasants_then.jpg\" alt=\"peasants_then\" width=\"594\" height=\"433\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2696\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/peasants_then.jpg 594w, https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/peasants_then-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/peasants_then-100x73.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/peasants_then-150x109.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/peasants_then-200x146.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/peasants_then-450x328.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/>Then&#8230; <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?attachment_id=2695\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2695\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/peasants_now.jpg\" alt=\"peasants_now\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1007\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2695\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/peasants_now.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/peasants_now-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/peasants_now-768x516.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/peasants_now-1024x687.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/peasants_now-100x67.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/peasants_now-150x101.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/peasants_now-200x134.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/peasants_now-450x302.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/peasants_now-600x403.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/peasants_now-900x604.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/>Now!<\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent trip to the U.S. to visit the relatives, my wife tried to do shopping in one of the big malls and while watching her and the selections presented by the various stores I came to the conclusion<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=2693\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Peasants of the U.S.<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2693"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2698,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2693\/revisions\/2698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}