{"id":74,"date":"2004-09-03T11:23:46","date_gmt":"2004-09-03T18:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/blog\/?p=72"},"modified":"2004-09-03T11:23:46","modified_gmt":"2004-09-03T18:23:46","slug":"spin-records-like-capone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/2004\/09\/03\/spin-records-like-capone\/","title":{"rendered":"Spin records like Capone"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I’m convinced that were he alive today,
Al Capone would be a fabulous DJ.<\/p>\n

Theo should have gotten his paycheck by Tuesday,
as I did; but as yet it hasn’t arrived.
And we need to pay rent today;
he’s floating some checks with fingers crossed,
while payroll says their hands are tied.<\/p>\n

Reading the religion and politics forum on
The Crossroads<\/a>, I often came across the idea
that the reason people don’t have money is because
they aren’t working for it. To them I say,
“Go read Nickel and Dimed<\/a>.” These are stories
of people that work their asses off, 40+ hours a week,
and still can’t afford to pay a month’s worth of rent.<\/p>\n

People are poor because minimum wage is low,
because server wages drop as low or lower than $1.50 an hour,
because breaking a limb can cripple you financially,
because cars and housing are unaffordable and
mass transit is unavailable, slow or unreliable.<\/p>\n

Don’t get me wrong, I think that if people are
unhappy with their lot, they can do something to
change it. However, I think the system, also, needs
to change; and I strongly disagree that poverty is
necessarily a sympton of laziness. My radical, liberal
thought says: “Stop bombing, start fixing things at home.”
But hey, that’s just me. My true colors show.<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

So, with one gmail invite left;
I leave it here<\/a> for the first interested
party to acquire. Enjoy.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m convinced that were he alive today, Al Capone would be a fabulous DJ. Theo should have gotten his paycheck by Tuesday, as I did; but as yet it hasn’t arrived. And we need to pay rent today; he’s floating some checks with fingers crossed, while payroll says their hands are tied. Reading the religion […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14,17,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}