{"id":14799,"date":"2017-11-09T10:27:20","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T15:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/?p=14799"},"modified":"2017-11-09T10:27:20","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T15:27:20","slug":"bill-gates-jeff-bezos-and-warren-buffett-are-wealthier-than-poorest-half-of-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2017\/11\/bill-gates-jeff-bezos-and-warren-buffett-are-wealthier-than-poorest-half-of-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Warren Buffett are wealthier than poorest half of US"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ifttt.com\/images\/no_image_card.png?w=980' style='max-width:600px;' data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<div>Think about that. 3 guys have more money than 50% of the poorest Americans combined.  know #BillGates is trying hard to give it all away, but you have to wonder how hard the other guys are trying, right?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2m8Tpro\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/2m8Tpro<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think about that. 3 guys have more money than 50% of the poorest Americans combined. know #BillGates is trying hard to give it all away, but you have to wonder how hard the other guys are trying, right? http:\/\/bit.ly\/2m8Tpro<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[14,480,456,132,429],"tags":[523,159,33,530,552],"class_list":["post-14799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-facebook","category-jamie-gray","category-news","category-shared-link","tag-blog","tag-facebook","tag-jamie-gray","tag-news","tag-shared"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15701,"url":"https:\/\/jamiegraymusic.com\/wordpress\/2018\/02\/how-trumps-budget-would-cut-the-safety-net-for-the-poorest-americans\/","url_meta":{"origin":14799,"position":0},"title":"How Trump&#8217;s budget would cut the safety net for the poorest Americans","date":"February 13, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"This guy is unfuckingbelievable. 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