{"id":426,"date":"2012-04-25T11:21:50","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T04:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/?p=426"},"modified":"2012-04-25T11:21:50","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T04:21:50","slug":"gen-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/?p=426","title":{"rendered":"Gen X"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read this article about Gen-Xers in<a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/arts\/article\/0,8599,1731528,00.html\" target=\"_blank\"> time entertainmen<\/a>t with a youtube video about a book written by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Saves-World-Generation-Everything-Sucking\/dp\/0670018589\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Gordinier called: &#8220;X saves the World&#8221;<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0I loved what he had to say about the Gen-X. Being a Gen-Xer myself there are a lot of things I don&#8217;t really understand or often don&#8217;t fit in. A question came up. Are we a minority group? The Baby boomers there were massive, came with force and are still holding on to power in this world. The generation after us the so called Millennial&#8217;s are also much a bigger force and seem to become or already are the dominant force today. In between is the kind of &#8220;forgotten&#8221;, &#8220;the lost&#8221; generation. Or the one that seems to have accomplished little. Gordinier says that we have a kind of middle child mentality because we are in &#8220;betweeners&#8221;. So we do things different. Watch the video. Very insightful. I want to get my hands on the book \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MPdEgwOsvDk&#038;feature=player_embedded<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read this article about Gen-Xers in time entertainment with a youtube video about a book written by Jeff Gordinier called: &#8220;X saves the World&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0I loved what he had to say about the Gen-X. Being a Gen-Xer myself there are a lot of things I don&#8217;t really understand or often don&#8217;t fit in. A question&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}