{"id":1455,"date":"2019-09-11T01:55:36","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T01:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/?p=1455"},"modified":"2019-09-06T19:01:58","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T19:01:58","slug":"the-greater-good-by-julia-gaughan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2019\/09\/11\/the-greater-good-by-julia-gaughan\/","title":{"rendered":"The Greater Good by Julia Gaughan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>Julia Gaughan writes from Lawrence, Kansas, where she lives with her family and books and cats and dog and from which she travels as much as possible. She can be found online through Medium and @julia_gaughan on Twitter.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:23px\"><br>The Greater Good<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You know that\nsaying about if you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day but if you teach\na man to fish, he\u2019ll feed himself until the corporations kill all the fish\nthrough pollution or unsustainable farming practices and he\u2019ll die because of\nthe lack of universal healthcare to treat his mercury-poisoned blood? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It doesn\u2019t\nreally roll off the tongue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You know that saying about how a penny saved is a penny earned even though that penny saved doesn\u2019t feed your crying children or pay for your prescription or put the gas in your car to get to your job that only gives you a raise when the minimum wage goes up and can\u2019t earn any interest when it\u2019s just helping stem the tide of overdrafts?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But has anyone\ntried professional football? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julia Gaughan writes from Lawrence, Kansas, where she lives with her family and books and cats and dog and from which she travels as much as possible. She can be found online through Medium and @julia_gaughan on Twitter.\u00a0 The Greater Good You know that saying about if you give a man a fish, you feed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/2019\/09\/11\/the-greater-good-by-julia-gaughan\/\" class=\"excerpt-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa867U-nt","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1455"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1457,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions\/1457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}