{"id":12249,"date":"2009-09-30T06:19:40","date_gmt":"2009-09-30T10:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=12249"},"modified":"2009-09-30T06:19:40","modified_gmt":"2009-09-30T10:19:40","slug":"opinion-economic-correction-requires-cultural-shift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2009\/opinion-economic-correction-requires-cultural-shift.html","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Economic correction requires cultural shift"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Arizona Star &#8211; Centuries ago, historians came up with a classic theory to explain the rise and decline of nations. The theory was that great nations start out tough-minded and energetic. Toughness and energy lead to wealth and power. Wealth and power lead to affluence and luxury. Affluence and luxury lead to decadence, corruption and decline.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Human nature, in no form of it, could ever bear prosperity,&#8221; John Adams wrote in a letter to Thomas Jefferson, warning against the coming corruption of his country.<\/div>\n<div><a title=\"Read Complete Article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.azstarnet.com\/sn\/fromcomments\/311089.php\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<div><a title=\"Read Complete Article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.azstarnet.com\/sn\/fromcomments\/311089.php\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arizona Star &#8211; Centuries ago, historians came up with a classic theory to explain the rise and decline of nations. The theory was that great nations start out tough-minded and energetic. Toughness and energy lead to wealth and power. Wealth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[15896,3362,15897,491],"class_list":["post-12249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-affluence","tag-centuries","tag-classic-theory","tag-decline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12249"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12251,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12249\/revisions\/12251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}