{"id":45,"date":"2008-03-12T20:17:18","date_gmt":"2008-03-13T04:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=45"},"modified":"2009-09-22T22:33:08","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T06:33:08","slug":"bronx-cheer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=45","title":{"rendered":"Bronx Cheer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Half a block from where I live is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bronxpizza.com\/\">Bronx Pizza<\/a>, which looks like a hole-in-the-wall place, but has a really great pesto pizza, usually available by the slice.  One can get two large slices and a soft drink for US$6. (The soft drink choice isn't great, but it's passable.)<\/p> <p>To-day, I was there to get dinner.  At a near-by table sat three blue-collar guys, my age or older.  They looked as have white blue-collar guys for most or all of my life.  But they were talking sincerely and unaffectedly about fighting a problem of sexism and racism at the place at which one of them worked, with the victim of the sexism being a woman.  That's <em>not<\/em> the sort of conversation that such men would have had in my childhood.<\/p> <p>The sun was going down, but my day brightened a bit.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Half a block from where I live is Bronx Pizza, which looks like a hole-in-the-wall place, but has a really great pesto pizza, usually available by the slice. One can get two large slices and a soft drink for US$6. (The soft drink choice isn't great, but it's passable.) To-day, I was there to get [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,5,4],"tags":[231,90,91],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-ideology-philosophy","category-personal","category-public","tag-bronx-pizza","tag-racism","tag-sexism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}