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In the UK poor people are borrowing money they can&#8217;t afford to pay back from loan sharks having babies they can&#8217;t afford and living whole lives on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2013\/03\/why-should-i-have-any-sympathy-for-poor-people-who-do-such-stupid-things\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Wm4j-kJ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":784,"url":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2012\/10\/poor-people-london-forced-to-drink-watery-cabbage-soup-out-of-leaky-old-boots\/","url_meta":{"origin":1285,"position":0},"title":"Poor People in London Forced to Drink Watery Cabbage Soup Out of Leaky Old Boots","author":"taxicle","date":"October 11, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"They can't even afford to put salt and pepper in it.","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"wpid-photo","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2012\/10\/wpid-photo1.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2332,"url":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2016\/01\/bowie-gets-all-the-sympathy\/","url_meta":{"origin":1285,"position":1},"title":"Bowie Gets All The Sympathy","author":"taxicle","date":"January 11, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"David Bowue died this morning, and the day has been full of the suck-suck-sucking sound as all the sympathy for all the dead people in the world has been hoovered up by the dead David Bowie. 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