{"id":819,"date":"2011-10-02T08:32:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-02T15:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2011\/10\/the-perils-of-the-creative-class.html"},"modified":"2011-10-02T08:32:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-02T15:32:00","slug":"the-perils-of-the-creative-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2011\/10\/the-perils-of-the-creative-class.html","title":{"rendered":"The Perils of the Creative Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-mRLJgu_KGEo\/ToiShuEs0gI\/AAAAAAAABLQ\/SNavL6VmSFI\/s1600\/gadget.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-mRLJgu_KGEo\/ToiShuEs0gI\/AAAAAAAABLQ\/SNavL6VmSFI\/s200\/gadget.jpg\" width=\"200\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>WE were supposed to be entering a laptop wielding, latte-sipping world where the Internet made us all more &#8220;connected,&#8221; weren&#8217;t we? But the Internet, combined with the bad economy and a restructuring of American life, has led to an erosion of the very creative class it was supposed to invigorate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/entertainment.salon.com\/2011\/10\/01\/creative_class_is_a_lie\/\">HERE<\/a> is my new piece in Salon which looks at the state of the much hyped creative class in 2011. It&#8217;s the first of a series in which we look at how artists, writers and people who deal with culture are faring &#8212; a story that has been largely untold.<\/p>\n<p>I spoke to a number of sources, including artists and writers struggling with the creative life and Internet skeptics Jaron Lanier and Andrew Keen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WE were supposed to be entering a laptop wielding, latte-sipping world where the Internet made us all more &#8220;connected,&#8221; weren&#8217;t we? But the Internet, combined with the bad economy and a restructuring of American life, has led to an erosion of the very creative class it was supposed to invigorate. HERE is my new piece [&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":[31,27,34,65],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-819","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-downturn","7":"category-journalism","8":"category-literary","9":"category-politics","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819","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=819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}