{"id":1207,"date":"2004-05-25T12:23:52","date_gmt":"2004-05-25T16:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1207"},"modified":"2004-05-25T12:23:52","modified_gmt":"2004-05-25T16:23:52","slug":"an-odd-choice-of-verb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1207","title":{"rendered":"An odd choice of verb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Salon<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/politics\/war_room\/archive.html?wire=D82GJ9PO0.html\">reports<\/a> that Theresa Heinz Kerry has published her tax returns, which show that her income last year was around $5m. This is a rather mind-boggling figure but what really struck me was the headline they put on the story: <span class=\"sane\">&#8220;Mrs. Kerry Earned More Than $5M in 2003&#8221;<\/span>. &#8220;Earned&#8221;? It was inherited from her first husband and more than half of it is simply the interest on her huge pile of capital. She &#8220;earned&#8221; it only if you regard her first marriage as a form of prositution.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The campaign reported that Heinz Kerry had an estimated gross taxable income in 2003 of approximately $2,338,000, along with tax exempt interest income of $2,777,000, largely from state, municipal and other public bonds.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><em>Salon<\/em> thinks of itself as a left-wing magazine. I think this slip is just another example of the modern American servility towards power and wealth, where anyone who has either is presumed to have earned it somehow.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salon reports that Theresa Heinz Kerry has published her tax returns, which show that her income last year was around $5m. This is a rather mind-boggling figure but what really struck me was the headline they put on the story: &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1207\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=1207\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}