{"id":2344,"date":"2011-10-28T22:22:46","date_gmt":"2011-10-29T03:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=2344"},"modified":"2011-10-28T22:22:46","modified_gmt":"2011-10-29T03:22:46","slug":"occupy-wall-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=2344","title":{"rendered":"OCCUPY WALL STREET"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/73gtsiWu8g4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Occupy Wall Street movement is becoming the elephant in the room. I refer to myself as part of the woodstock generation; mostly because I was in college at the time. Most of my dorm mates burned their draft cards; an action they did not take lightly. (I am reminded that Russell Coutts refers to my generation as the Flintstone generation, how little he understands.)<\/p>\n<p>I watched Kent State happen with shock. All of this led me to believe that by the time I was a fully functioning part of society, we, collectively would have found solutions for so many of society&#8217;s problems. Instead I watched as those problems grew much worse.<\/p>\n<p>Had there been a draft by the time of the Iraq war, the war likely would never have happened. It became a war for the poor and misguided.<\/p>\n<p>No one on Wall Street broke a law, that I am aware. But something went terribly wrong never-the-less.<\/p>\n<p>If we outlawed lobbyists and limited contributions to political campaigns I believe change would occur very quickly.<\/p>\n<p>People complain that the protesters have no demands; I see a system that is broken; one that needs EVERYTHING FIXED. I remain troubled that we allowed ourselves to get where we are. But I am relieved, and comforted to see the protests finally happening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Occupy Wall Street movement is becoming the elephant in the room. I refer to myself as part of the woodstock generation; mostly because I was in college at the time. Most of my dorm mates burned their draft cards; an action they did not take lightly. (I am reminded that Russell Coutts refers to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=2344\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">OCCUPY WALL STREET<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[994],"tags":[996,995,997],"class_list":["post-2344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-world","tag-kent-state","tag-occupy-wall-street","tag-woodstock-generation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2345,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344\/revisions\/2345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}