{"id":2092,"date":"2010-07-05T22:12:19","date_gmt":"2010-07-06T05:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/?p=2092"},"modified":"2010-07-05T22:13:35","modified_gmt":"2010-07-06T05:13:35","slug":"belloc-trashes-rich-folks-pretending-to-be-hippies-or-outdoorsmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2010\/07\/05\/belloc-trashes-rich-folks-pretending-to-be-hippies-or-outdoorsmen\/","title":{"rendered":"Belloc trashes rich folks pretending to be hippies or outdoorsmen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was written nearly 100 years ago, but it sounds like something out of <a href=\"http:\/\/stuffwhitepeoplelike.com\/\">Stuff White People Like<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I say it roundly; if it were not for the punctiliousness of the  middle-class in these matters all our civilization would go to pieces.  They are the conservators and the maintainers of the standard, the  moderators of Europe, the salt of society. For the kind of man who  boasts that he does not mind dirty clothes or roughing it, is either a  man who cares nothing for all that civilization has built up and who  rather hates it, or else (and this is much more common) he is a rich  man, or accustomed to live among the rich, and can afford to waste  energy and stuff because he feels in a vague way that more clothes can  always be bought, that at the end of his vagabondism he can get  excellent dinners, and that London and Paris are full of luxurious baths  and barber shops. <strong>Of all the corrupting effects of wealth there is none  worse than this, that it makes the wealthy (and their parasites) think  in some way divine, or at least a lovely character of the mind, what is  in truth nothing but their power of luxurious living<\/strong>. Heaven keep us all  from great riches&#8211;I mean from very great riches.<\/p>\n<p>-The Path to Rome, Hilaire Belloc, p.72<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was written nearly 100 years ago, but it sounds like something out of Stuff White People Like. I say it roundly; if it were not for the punctiliousness of the middle-class in these matters all our civilization would go to pieces. They are the conservators and the maintainers of the standard, the moderators of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2010\/07\/05\/belloc-trashes-rich-folks-pretending-to-be-hippies-or-outdoorsmen\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Belloc trashes rich folks pretending to be hippies or outdoorsmen&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2092"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2096,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092\/revisions\/2096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}