{"id":9455,"date":"2012-08-16T11:38:20","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T11:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/08\/16\/generation-screwed-may-support-ryan\/"},"modified":"2012-08-16T11:38:20","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T11:38:20","slug":"generation-screwed-may-support-ryan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/08\/16\/generation-screwed-may-support-ryan\/","title":{"rendered":"Generation Screwed May Support Ryan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Gen-Xers (those born between 1965 and 1980) are the cohort sandwiched between the Boomers&#0160; and the Millennials.&#0160; Now they have one of their own in contention for high office.&#0160; And Paul Ryan, 42, is no slacker.&#0160; Romney&#39;s pick of the man for VP was a brilliant stroke and may gin up support for the Republican ticket as Kirsten Powers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2012\/08\/16\/why-the-screwed-generation-is-turning-to-paul-ryan.html\" target=\"_self\">argues<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">She&#0160;quoted a word I had never seen before, &#39;athazagoraphobia&#39;:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Generation X chronicler Jeff Gordiner, has written that Gen-Xers suffer from \u201cathazagoraphobia\u201d\u2014\u201can abnormal and persistent fear of being forgotten or ignored.\u201d Except it\u2019s not really a phobia; it\u2019s been reality for a long time. Maybe that is about to change.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gen-Xers (those born between 1965 and 1980) are the cohort sandwiched between the Boomers&#0160; and the Millennials.&#0160; Now they have one of their own in contention for high office.&#0160; And Paul Ryan, 42, is no slacker.&#0160; Romney&#39;s pick of the man for VP was a brilliant stroke and may gin up support for the Republican &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/08\/16\/generation-screwed-may-support-ryan\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Generation Screwed May Support Ryan&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}