{"id":348,"date":"2004-01-17T17:29:15","date_gmt":"2004-01-17T17:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=348"},"modified":"2004-01-17T17:29:15","modified_gmt":"2004-01-17T17:29:15","slug":"evil_empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=348","title":{"rendered":"Evil Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another reason I will never, ever shop at Wal-Mart.  They engage in the decidedly Dickensian practice of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/01\/18\/national\/18WALM.html?hp\">locking overnight employees in the stores<\/a> with no easy way to get out in an emergency.  Isn&#8217;t it interesting to note how this wildly successful company can barely conceal its contempt for its own workers?<br \/>\nThe Hubble Telescope has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/TECH\/space\/01\/16\/hubble.telescope.ap\/index.html\">fallen victim<\/a> to the fallout from last year&#8217;s Columbia disaster.  Pity.  I really enjoy looking at the images it produces.  They&#8217;re a great reminder that the daily trivialities of life aren&#8217;t terribly significant in the larger scheme of things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another reason I will never, ever shop at Wal-Mart. They engage in the decidedly Dickensian practice of locking overnight employees in the stores with no easy way to get out in an emergency. Isn&#8217;t it interesting to note how this wildly successful company can barely conceal its contempt for its own workers? The Hubble <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=348' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-5C","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}