{"id":800,"date":"2011-12-18T14:11:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-18T22:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2011\/12\/death-of-the-clerk.html"},"modified":"2011-12-18T14:11:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-18T22:11:00","slug":"death-of-the-clerk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2011\/12\/death-of-the-clerk.html","title":{"rendered":"Death of the Clerk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-ys4Ns3sLbnU\/Tu9sbgtZV-I\/AAAAAAAABOA\/qHRRsqhGtdQ\/s1600\/Clerks_movie_poster%253B_Just_because_they_serve_you_---_.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-ys4Ns3sLbnU\/Tu9sbgtZV-I\/AAAAAAAABOA\/qHRRsqhGtdQ\/s320\/Clerks_movie_poster%253B_Just_because_they_serve_you_---_.jpg\" width=\"215\"><\/a>TODAY I&#8217;ve got a new story from my Salon series on the demise of the creative class. It looks at the humble store clerk and asks, What does it means that these people &#8212; and the places they work, like Rocket Video, Tower Records, Dutton&#8217;s Brentwood Books, and so on &#8212; are disappearing?<\/p>\n<p>I spoke to a video store clerk, writers Jonathan Lethem and Dana Gioia, an MIT research scientist and others.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2011\/12\/18\/the_clerk_rip\/\">Here<\/a> is that story. <\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/news\/movies\/la-et-otis-creative-economy-20111220,0,3381437.story\">Here<\/a> are some late-breaking figures about the decline of creative jobs in Southern California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TODAY I&#8217;ve got a new story from my Salon series on the demise of the creative class. It looks at the humble store clerk and asks, What does it means that these people &#8212; and the places they work, like Rocket Video, Tower Records, Dutton&#8217;s Brentwood Books, and so on &#8212; are disappearing? I spoke [&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":[39,65],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-800","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-creative-class","7":"category-politics","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800","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=800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}