{"id":24802,"date":"2016-02-16T10:39:29","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T18:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=24802"},"modified":"2016-02-16T10:39:29","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T18:39:29","slug":"the-heartbreak-of-socialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/16\/the-heartbreak-of-socialism\/","title":{"rendered":"The heartbreak of socialism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It ain&#8217;t only about empty shelves and soaring prices.<\/p>\n<p>A friend who lives in an undisclosed location in Latin America writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nI have been doing online dating for about 2 months now on a site directed at Latin American singles. I get a lot of messages from women in Venezuela saying things like &#8220;I don&#8217;t care that you are more than twice my age, get me out of here.&#8221;  Seriously I get explicit offers from young women my daughter&#8217;s age. Heart breaking, but that is f**king socialism. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Their situation is very sad. You have middle class families that have lost everything. They are reduced to unimaginable conditions. No electricity for weeks at a time, no running water and now no food. These girls have sent me explicit pictures, their Facebook &#038; Skype contacts and a whole bunch of other information to prove they are real (I also get more than a few scam offers, but these are not). Basically saying get me to your country, marry me and you can have anything you want. Really awful situation.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It ain&#8217;t only about empty shelves and soaring prices. A friend who lives in an undisclosed location in Latin America writes: I have been doing online dating for about 2 months now on a site directed at Latin American singles. I get a lot of messages from women in Venezuela saying things like &#8220;I don&#8217;t care that you are more than twice my age, get me out of here.&#8221; Seriously I get explicit offers from young women my daughter&#8217;s age. Heart breaking, but that is f**king socialism. &#8230; Their situation is very sad. You have middle class families that have&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/16\/the-heartbreak-of-socialism\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The heartbreak of socialism<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}