{"id":1620,"date":"2007-06-27T18:39:28","date_gmt":"2007-06-27T18:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1620"},"modified":"2007-06-27T18:39:28","modified_gmt":"2007-06-27T18:39:28","slug":"young_folks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1620","title":{"rendered":"Young Folks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever some particular bit of news leads me to despair over the wreckage after six years of conservative rule, I try to take the long view. In general, I think this country&#8211;and human history&#8211;is always trying to extend a hand towards its better angels. Attitudes and mores change in ways that almost always favor acceptance and inclusiveness. As little as ten years ago, a serious debate over gay marriage wouldn&#8217;t have even seemed remotely likely. Five years ago, global warming was the sole concern of dedicated environmentalists. Things change, and usually for the better. That&#8217;s why I was encouraged when I read that a recent study shows that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/06\/27\/washington\/27poll.html?pagewanted=2&amp;_r=1&amp;ref=politics\">young people seem to lean left<\/a>. Not exactly surprising, but I&#8217;m willing to bet that this generation will remain slightly left of center, as opposed to previous generations that drifted to the right as they grew older (I&#8217;m looking at you, boomers). And that&#8217;s a good thing, because we&#8217;re going to need their help to clean things up. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever some particular bit of news leads me to despair over the wreckage after six years of conservative rule, I try to take the long view. In general, I think this country&#8211;and human history&#8211;is always trying to extend a hand towards its better angels. Attitudes and mores change in ways that almost always favor acceptance <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1620' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-q8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}