{"id":1680,"date":"2008-08-01T18:55:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-01T18:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/2008\/08\/01\/damn-for-real\/"},"modified":"2017-06-08T18:26:32","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T18:26:32","slug":"damn-for-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/damn-for-real\/","title":{"rendered":"damn, for real?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not to say that one has anything to do with the other, but I find it rather ironic that during the same week that oil companies cashed in <a href=\"http:\/\/usnews.rankingsandreviews.com\/cars-trucks\/daily-news\/080801-Oil-Companies-Report-Record-Profits-1-500-Per-Second\/\">$1,500<\/a> per <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">second<\/span><\/span> (!), a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-arnold1-2008aug01,0,1783186.story?page=1\">bunch of Cali folks<\/a> are getting their salaries reduced to minimum wage&#8230;or losing their gigs all together. Talk about bringing the people to their knees!<\/p>\n<p>What gives?<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, it&#8217;s not about having a Plan B anymore. It&#8217;s about figuring out what C, D, E and F are so you can put food on the table and of course, contribute to said $1,500 profit&#8230;oops, I mean, pay for gas.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not to say that one has anything to do with the other, but I find it rather ironic that during the same week that oil companies cashed in $1,500 per second (!), a bunch of Cali folks are getting their salaries reduced to minimum wage&#8230;or losing their gigs all together. Talk about bringing the people&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/damn-for-real\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">damn, for real?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_ti_tpc_template_sync":false,"_ti_tpc_template_id":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1680"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2759,"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions\/2759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reginarobertson.com\/rrrsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}