{"id":26,"date":"2007-01-28T01:42:04","date_gmt":"2007-01-28T06:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/?p=26"},"modified":"2016-12-26T14:19:11","modified_gmt":"2016-12-26T22:19:11","slug":"keeping-up-with-the-joneses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/keeping-up-with-the-joneses\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping Up With the Joneses"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ttr_start\"><\/div><p>On a joyride through Oakland yesterday I saw my very first gated church.  That is, I saw a huge church with a big electronic gate surrounding the exterior.  I&#8217;m sure Jesus will make sure that all of those suffering and in need will be administered a gate pass.<\/p>\n<p>Shame on you, Oakland.  And shame on Atlanta.  As the rumor goes, one of the suburbs outside of that city is now the first to have a gated community&#8230; wait, no, could it be?  a gated community within a gated community.  So that the residents can protect themselves from those other uppidity, white-bread gated community residents.<br \/>\nWho knows?  You can&#8217;t trust those foks living near the exterior.  They could riot. Better<br \/>\nlock down the big screen TV.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ttr_end\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a joyride through Oakland yesterday I saw my very first gated church. That is, I saw a huge church with a big electronic gate surrounding the exterior. I&#8217;m sure Jesus will make sure that all of those suffering and in need will be administered a gate pass. Shame on you, Oakland. And shame on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/keeping-up-with-the-joneses\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Keeping Up With the Joneses<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[86,390,654,852],"series":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-culture","tag-atlanta","tag-gated-communities","tag-oakland","tag-suburbia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17333,"href":"https:\/\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions\/17333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}