{"id":424821,"date":"2021-12-09T09:56:49","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T09:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=227740"},"modified":"2021-12-09T09:56:49","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T09:56:49","slug":"the-state-friend-and-foe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/12\/09\/the-state-friend-and-foe\/","title":{"rendered":"The State, Friend and Foe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being on Medicaid a few years ago, as I \u201ctransitioned\u201d between jobs, saved me. At the time, the stress of looking for new work, of applying for a doctorate, of maintaining a \u201cbudget\u201d so I could occasionally leave the house and grab dinner with friends at places that didn\u2019t have menus smeared with marinara sauce  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/12\/09\/the-state-friend-and-foe\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/12\/09\/the-state-friend-and-foe\/\">The State, Friend and Foe<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/12\/09\/the-state-friend-and-foe\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being on Medicaid a few years ago, as I \u201ctransitioned\u201d between jobs, saved me. At the time, the stress of looking for new work, of applying for a doctorate, of maintaining a \u201cbudget\u201d so I could occasionally leave the house and grab dinner with friends &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424821"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424821"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":425710,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424821\/revisions\/425710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}