{"id":770,"date":"2012-04-22T08:16:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-22T15:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2012\/04\/the-creative-class-idle-dreamers.html"},"modified":"2012-04-22T08:16:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T15:16:00","slug":"the-creative-class-idle-dreamers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2012\/04\/the-creative-class-idle-dreamers.html","title":{"rendered":"The Creative Class: Idle Dreamers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-8IXgxg7FdWY\/T5QwuNnSIgI\/AAAAAAAABTA\/PO7C1nHe8ZE\/s1600\/Just_Kids_(Patti_Smith_memoir)_cover_art.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-8IXgxg7FdWY\/T5QwuNnSIgI\/AAAAAAAABTA\/PO7C1nHe8ZE\/s320\/Just_Kids_(Patti_Smith_memoir)_cover_art.jpg\" width=\"211\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>THE latest of my series for Salon on the damage the recession, digital technology and the Internet have exerted on the creative class runs today. I&#8217;m consumed with the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books this weekend but will try to post on it more extensively later.<\/p>\n<p>This piece looked at the crisis and said, Why aren&#8217;t we hearing about it? Why has it not entered the cultural conversation? And why do is our first gut reaction that artists and creative types are, as one of my sources puts it, idle dreamers?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll just say this one required the most work, the most research and I think has the most depth and sweep.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/04\/22\/no_sympathy_for_the_creative_class\/\">HERE<\/a> is the new piece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE latest of my series for Salon on the damage the recession, digital technology and the Internet have exerted on the creative class runs today. I&#8217;m consumed with the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books this weekend but will try to post on it more extensively later. This piece looked at the crisis and said, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[52,70,39,30,29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-770","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-architecture","7":"category-art","8":"category-creative-class","9":"category-los-angeles","10":"category-west-coast","11":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}