{"id":1972,"date":"2011-10-17T18:47:45","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T22:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=1972"},"modified":"2011-10-17T19:02:49","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T23:02:49","slug":"i-am-the-3-14159-percent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/?p=1972","title":{"rendered":"I Am The 3.14159 Percent"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1977\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/DSC_0006.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1977\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1977\" title=\"Occu Pi Wall St:  I Am The 3.14159 Percent\" src=\"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/DSC_0006.jpg\" alt=\"Occu Pi Wall St: I Am The 3.14159 Percent\" width=\"480\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/DSC_0006.jpg 480w, http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/DSC_0006-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1977\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Occu Pi Wall St: I Am The 3.14159 Percent<\/p><\/div>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 50%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1972 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/occu.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/occu-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Occu Pi Wall Street\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1973\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/occu-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/occu-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/occu.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1973'>\n\t\t\t\tOccu Pi Wall Street\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/DSC_0006.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/DSC_0006-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"I Am The 3.14159 Percent\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-1977\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt>\n\t\t\t\t<dd class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-1977'>\n\t\t\t\tI Am The 3.14159 Percent\n\t\t\t\t<\/dd><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m the 3.14159 percent.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m better educated than you are, and I&#8217;m a damn sight better looking.\u00a0 I probably make more money than you do.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>But you know what?\u00a0 I probably OWE more money than you do, too.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve got debts no honest man can pay.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Those who do not understand history are doomed to repeat it.\u00a0 That&#8217;s also true of math.<\/li>\n<li>Sure, you say you&#8217;re part of the 99%, unique and original, just like everybody else.\u00a0 But you&#8217;re not really like 99% of Americans.\u00a0 You know why?\u00a0 Because you&#8217;re out protesting.\u00a0 You got up.\u00a0 You&#8217;re not in front of the TV.\u00a0 You&#8217;re not sitting on the Great American Couch, watching it all on the news.\u00a0 You&#8217;re certainly not like 99% of the country.<\/li>\n<li>But you&#8217;re standing in front of buildings.\u00a0 You&#8217;re blocking traffic, you&#8217;re picketing passersby and picking on museum guards.\u00a0 You&#8217;re making news, but you&#8217;re not making change.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Change starts with education.\u00a0 Get one.\u00a0 Got one?\u00a0 Get more.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The more you know, the more powerful you&#8217;ll become &#8211; individually and as a group.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Those who do not understand history are doomed to repeat it; those who do not understand math and global economics are doomed to protest in vain, blamestorming to punish the past instead of brainstorming to fix the future.<\/li>\n<li>Can&#8217;t afford a degree?\u00a0 Get an education.\u00a0 The Internet is your school.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t have access to the Internet?\u00a0 Go to the library.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t have a library?\u00a0 <strong>Vote.<\/strong>\u00a0 Don&#8217;t have a candidate?\u00a0 <strong>Run.<\/strong>\u00a0 You&#8217;ve already proved you&#8217;ve got more energy to change the world than 99 percent of the country &#8211; be part of the 3.14159 Percent.\u00a0 Be smart about it.\u00a0 Go get &#8217;em.<\/li>\n<li>Tell them the Big Ugly Man Doll sent you.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m the 3.14159 percent.\u00a0 I&#8217;m better educated than you are, and I&#8217;m a damn sight better looking.\u00a0 I probably make more money than you do.\u00a0 But you know what?\u00a0 I probably OWE more money than you do, too.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve got debts no honest man can pay.\u00a0 Those who do not understand history are doomed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14,7],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1972"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1979,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions\/1979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biguglymandoll.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}