Allow my Jetpack to load for non-admin users

[jboland88]

Proposed changes:

• This diff updates two endpoints for My Jetpack to use the edit_posts permission in favor of manage_options to allow the My Jetpack page to load properly for more than admin users.

Jetpack product discussion

pbNhbs-cqF-p2

Does this pull request change what data or activity we track or use?

No

Testing instructions:

• To reproduce the original issue, set up a Jetpack test site as an admin user. Connect the Jetpack site.
• Create a new non-admin account (any role higher than Subscriber)
• Log in to the Jetpack site as the non-admin user
• Navigate to My Jetpack
• The My Jetpack page should show briefly and then disappear. You'll notice API errors in the network console.
• Now, with this patch applied, try again to load My Jetpack as a non admin.
• The page should not disappear.

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Are you an Automattician? Please test your changes on all WordPress.com environments to help mitigate accidental explosions.

• To test on WoA, go to the Plugins menu on a WordPress.com Simple site. Click on the "Upload" button and follow the upgrade flow to be able to upload, install, and activate the Jetpack Beta plugin. Once the plugin is active, go to Jetpack > Jetpack Beta, select your plugin, and enable the fix/my-jetpack-for-non-admins branch.

• To test on Simple, run the following command on your sandbox:

  bin/jetpack-downloader test jetpack fix/my-jetpack-for-non-admins
  

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