{"id":161705445,"date":"2010-02-15T14:10:45","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T14:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=161705445"},"modified":"2010-02-15T14:10:45","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T14:10:45","slug":"entitlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=161705445","title":{"rendered":"Entitlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Douglas Preston has been taking heat for his surprisingly acid comment in the New York Times vis a vis e-book pricing:<br \/>\n\u201cThe sense of entitlement of the American consumer is absolutely astonishing,\u201d said Douglas Preston, whose novel \u201cImpact\u201d reached as high as No. 4 on The New York Times\u2019s hardcover fiction best-seller list earlier this month. \u201cIt\u2019s the Wal-Mart mentality, which in my view is very unhealthy for our country. It\u2019s this notion of not wanting to pay the real price of something.\u201d<br \/>\nI won\u2019t get into Wal-Mart or e-book pricing, but reading it I couldn\u2019t help think of another form of American consumer: The driver. Just try floating the idea of a federal gas tax hike, simply to keep up with inflation (and, more ambitiously, to cover the actual costs of driving).<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.howwedrive.com\/2010\/02\/15\/entitlement\/\">https:\/\/www.howwedrive.com\/2010\/02\/15\/entitlement\/<\/a>oldId.20100215141045875<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Douglas Preston has been taking heat for his surprisingly acid comment in the New York Times vis a vis e-book pricing: \u201cThe sense of entitlement of the American consumer is absolutely astonishing,\u201d said Douglas Preston, whose novel \u201cImpact\u201d reached as high as No. 4 on The New York Times\u2019s hardcover fiction best-seller list earlier this &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=161705445\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Entitlement&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161705445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161705445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161705445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161705445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161705445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161705445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161705445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}