{"id":36670,"date":"2018-10-23T01:00:48","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T05:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=36670"},"modified":"2018-10-04T10:59:53","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T14:59:53","slug":"qotd-the-boomers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/10\/23\/qotd-the-boomers\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The boomers"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>How did my generation do? Well, we get blamed for being selfish and self-obsessed and soft and pushing up house prices and saddling the next generation with hideous debts and nowhere to live and I suppose that\u2019s not entirely unfair.<\/p>\n<p>We are ridiculously obsessed with food, buy too many things and have too many clothes. But we didn\u2019t start a war. Well, not a big one. And we didn\u2019t nuke anyone. We defused the Cold War. We believed in the collective good. Although we came to confuse gestures with actions and we think going on a march and writing a letter are the same as doing something, making the world better.<\/p>\n<p>We were the generation that were relentlessly for civil rights, human rights, gay rights, disability rights, equality, fairness. We were implacably against racism and censorship. We defended freedom of speech, religion and expression. We will leave the world better fed and better off than when we arrived in it.<\/p>\n<p>Britain is a far happier, richer and fairer place than it was 60 years ago. And if you think that\u2019s wishful self-promotion, you have no idea how grim and threadbare Britain in the Fifties was. You weren\u2019t there, you don\u2019t remember.<\/p>\n<p>A.A. Gill, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesundaytimes.co.uk\/sto\/newsreview\/features\/article1427723.ece?shareToken=2fca8e9e52d777d7c93e9583efcc3bf2\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Life at 60&#8221;, <em>Sunday Times<\/em><\/a>, 2014-06-29.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How did my generation do? Well, we get blamed for being selfish and self-obsessed and soft and pushing up house prices and saddling the next generation with hideous debts and nowhere to live and I suppose that\u2019s not entirely unfair. We are ridiculously obsessed with food, buy too many things and have too many clothes. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,41],"tags":[1063,407,108,720],"class_list":["post-36670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-history","category-quotations","tag-1950s","tag-babyboomers","tag-coldwar","tag-protest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9xs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36671,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36670\/revisions\/36671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}