{"id":251499,"date":"2024-04-10T10:30:03","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T09:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/?post_type=snippet&#038;p=251499"},"modified":"2024-04-10T11:18:55","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T10:18:55","slug":"just-one-life","status":"publish","type":"snippet","link":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/snippet\/just-one-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Just One Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent piece in the <em>i<\/em> newspaper dealt with a 78-year-old widow, who retired when she was sixty after working for over forty years, but now can barely get by, living on her state pension of \u00a3203 a week. Her energy bills in winter are nearly \u00a380 a week.<\/p>\n<p>She cannot afford to go for lunch with her friends, and says that \u2018Having two coffees a day is my one luxury.\u2019 She has not had a holiday in decades. She cannot go out as much as she would like, and this damages her mental health. Of course there are many, many others in a similar predicament. <\/p>\n<p>Just one worker&#8217;s life, but it says so much. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-251499","snippet","type-snippet","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet\/251499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/snippet"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/snippet"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldsocialism.org\/spgb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}