{"id":14295,"date":"2015-08-30T15:00:13","date_gmt":"2015-08-30T23:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=14295"},"modified":"2015-08-30T14:16:51","modified_gmt":"2015-08-30T22:16:51","slug":"jacobin-why-the-rich-love-burning-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/30\/jacobin-why-the-rich-love-burning-man\/","title":{"rendered":"(Jacobin) Why the Rich Love Burning Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EXCERPT: &#8216;Participation sounds egalitarian, but it leads to some interesting contradictions. The most elaborate camps and spectacles tend to be brought by the rich because they have the time, the money, or both, to do so. Wealthier attendees often pay laborers to build and plan their own massive (and often exclusive) camps. If you scan San Francisco\u2019s Craigslist in the month of August, you\u2019ll start to see ads for part-time service labor gigs to plump the metaphorical pillows of wealthy Burners.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The rich also hire sherpas to guide them around the festival and wait on them at the camp. Some burners derogatorily refer to these rich person camps as \u201cturnkey camps.\u201d&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacobinmag.com\/2015\/08\/burning-man-one-percent-silicon-valley-tech\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here to Read More<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacobinmag.com\/2015\/08\/burning-man-one-percent-silicon-valley-tech\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14296\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/burningman-e1440972983428.jpg\" alt=\"burningman\" width=\"550\" height=\"378\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacobinmag.com\/2015\/08\/burning-man-one-percent-silicon-valley-tech\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.jacobinmag.com\/2015\/08\/burning-man-one-percent-silicon-valley-tech\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXCERPT: &#8216;Participation sounds egalitarian, but it leads to some interesting contradictions. The most elaborate camps and spectacles tend to be brought by the rich because they have the time, the money, or both, to do so. Wealthier attendees often pay laborers to build and plan their own massive (and often exclusive) camps. If you scan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14297,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14295\/revisions\/14297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}