{"id":2230,"date":"2009-03-01T14:04:04","date_gmt":"2009-03-01T06:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=2230"},"modified":"2009-03-01T14:04:04","modified_gmt":"2009-03-01T06:04:04","slug":"defining-povert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2009\/03\/01\/defining-povert\/","title":{"rendered":"Defining Poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Adam Smith himself closely embraced a relative definition of poverty, arguing that to be poor was to have to go without what was needed to be a &#8220;creditable&#8221; member of society. He noted that, in his day and age, a man needed a linen shirt if he was to appear in public &#8220;without shame.&#8221; What defines being poor is not just being without a shirt (any shirt), but being without the means to be minimally respected in a particular society at a particular time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Poverty is not only about money. It goes beyond that. Its about respect as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Smith himself closely embraced a relative definition of poverty, arguing that to be poor was to have to go without what was needed to be a &#8220;creditable&#8221; member of society. He noted that, in his day and age, a man needed a linen shirt if he was to appear in public &#8220;without shame.&#8221; What [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[154],"class_list":["post-2230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","tag-poverty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2230"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3651,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2230\/revisions\/3651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}