{"id":94,"date":"2008-10-09T19:35:40","date_gmt":"2008-10-10T00:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.sxu.edu\/sites\/wordpress\/bonadonna\/?p=94"},"modified":"2017-11-08T08:52:33","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T13:52:33","slug":"the-delicate-balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bonadonna.org\/sites\/wordpress\/bonadonna\/archives\/94","title":{"rendered":"The Delicate Balance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Much of what Charles Dickens wrote deserves to be quoted here, but all I&#8217;ll offer for now is a snippet from <em>David Copperfield<\/em>, Mr. Micawber&#8217;s reflection\/advice to David on economic matters: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&quot;Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.&quot;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See also:<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=96557578\" target=\"_blank\">NPR Story, &#8220;A Tale Of Two Economies,&#8221;<\/a> from <em>Morning Edition<\/em>, November 4, 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much of what Charles Dickens wrote deserves to be quoted here, but all I&#8217;ll offer for now is a snippet from David Copperfield, Mr. Micawber&#8217;s reflection\/advice to David on economic matters: &quot;Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.&quot; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bonadonna.org\/sites\/wordpress\/bonadonna\/archives\/94\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Delicate Balance<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-life-in-general","category-quotation-bin","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonadonna.org\/sites\/wordpress\/bonadonna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonadonna.org\/sites\/wordpress\/bonadonna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonadonna.org\/sites\/wordpress\/bonadonna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonadonna.org\/sites\/wordpress\/bonadonna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonadonna.org\/sites\/wordpress\/bonadonna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/bonadonna.org\/sites\/wordpress\/bonadonna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128,"href":"https:\/\/bonadonna.org\/sites\/wordpress\/bonadonna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonadonna.org\/sites\/wordpress\/bonadonna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonadonna.org\/sites\/wordpress\/bonadonna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonadonna.org\/sites\/wordpress\/bonadonna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}