{"id":555,"date":"2020-08-22T09:36:46","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T16:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/?p=555"},"modified":"2020-08-22T09:36:46","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T16:36:46","slug":"why-the-pandemic-is-so-bad-in-america-the-atlantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/2020\/08\/22\/why-the-pandemic-is-so-bad-in-america-the-atlantic\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the Pandemic Is So Bad in America &#8211; The Atlantic"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>How did it come to this? A virus a thousand times smaller than a dust mote has humbled and humiliated the planet\u2019s most powerful nation. America has failed to protect its people, leaving them with illness and financial ruin. It has lost its status as a global leader. It has careened between inaction and ineptitude. The breadth and magnitude of its errors are difficult, in the moment, to truly fathom.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2020\/09\/coronavirus-american-failure\/614191\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\" class=\"wpel-icon-left\"><i class=\"wpel-icon dashicons-before dashicons-admin-links\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>Why the Pandemic Is So Bad in America &#8211; The Atlantic<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How did it come to this? A virus a thousand times smaller than a dust mote has humbled and humiliated the planet\u2019s most powerful nation. America has failed to protect its people, leaving them with illness and financial ruin. It has lost its status as a global leader. It has careened between inaction and ineptitude. &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/2020\/08\/22\/why-the-pandemic-is-so-bad-in-america-the-atlantic\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}