{"id":22075,"date":"2015-04-02T13:44:09","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T13:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=22075"},"modified":"2015-04-02T13:46:10","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T13:46:10","slug":"the-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=22075","title":{"rendered":"The Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eschatonblog.com\/2015\/04\/back-in-my-day.html\">Atrios<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But, Back In My Day, nobody got paid minimum working for fast food restaurants, at least in my location (Philly burbs). Nobody I knew in high school, at age 16, had any problem finding a job which paid $6-7\/hour, including working at fast food restaurants and call survey centers. That's about $12-14, adjusting for inflation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>All of my high-school jobs were minimum wage, or pennies above. Which, at the time was $4.35 or thereabouts. Upstate NY, late 80s. I worked in retail clothing, department stores, fast food places, a mall sit-down restaurant, the local amusement park, mowed lawns, was an under the table janitor, and finally at an ice factory. <\/p>\n<p>It wasn't until college that I got a job that paid more than minimum wage: working as an aide in the RIT computer labs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atrios: But, Back In My Day, nobody got paid minimum working for fast food restaurants, at least in my location (Philly burbs). Nobody I knew in high school, at age 16, had any problem finding a job which paid $6-7\/hour, including working at fast food restaurants and call survey centers. That's about $12-14, adjusting for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22075"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22077,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22075\/revisions\/22077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}