{"id":553,"date":"2009-08-06T21:02:20","date_gmt":"2009-08-06T21:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primaryschooling.net\/?page_id=553"},"modified":"2012-07-16T23:27:56","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T13:27:56","slug":"the-lost-generation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/primaryschooling.net\/?page_id=553","title":{"rendered":"The Lost Generation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE LOST GENERATION<br \/>\nJonathan Reid<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/network.fivefreedoms.org\">http:\/\/network.fivefreedoms.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am part of a lost generation.<br \/>\nAnd I refuse to believe that<br \/>\nI can change the world.<br \/>\nI realise that this may be a shock, but<br \/>\n\u201cHappiness comes from within\u201d<br \/>\nIs a lie, and<br \/>\n\u201cMoney will make me happy.\u201d<br \/>\nSo, in 30 years I will tell my children<br \/>\nThey are not the most important thing in my life.<br \/>\nMy employer will know that<br \/>\nI have my priorities right because<br \/>\nWork<br \/>\nIs more important than<br \/>\nFamily.<br \/>\nOnce upon a time<br \/>\nFamilies stayed together;<br \/>\nBut this will not be true of my era.<br \/>\nThis is a quick-fix society.<br \/>\nExperts tell me<br \/>\n30 years from now I will be celebrating the 10th anniversary of my divorce.<br \/>\nI do not concede that<br \/>\nI will live in a country of my own making.<br \/>\nIn the future<br \/>\nEnvironmental destruction will be the norm.<br \/>\nNo longer can it be said<br \/>\nMy peers and I care about this earth.<br \/>\nIt will be evident that<br \/>\nMy generation is apathetic and lethargic.<br \/>\nIt is foolish to presume that<br \/>\nThere is hope.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small\">All this will come true unless we choose to reverse it.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: xx-small\">Read upwards.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE LOST GENERATION Jonathan Reid http:\/\/network.fivefreedoms.org I am part of a lost generation. And I refuse to believe that I can change the world. I realise that this may be a shock, but \u201cHappiness comes from within\u201d Is a lie, and \u201cMoney will make me happy.\u201d So, in 30 years I will tell my children &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/primaryschooling.net\/?page_id=553\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Lost Generation<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":779,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-553","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primaryschooling.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primaryschooling.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primaryschooling.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primaryschooling.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primaryschooling.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/primaryschooling.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1990,"href":"https:\/\/primaryschooling.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/553\/revisions\/1990"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primaryschooling.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primaryschooling.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}