{"id":1462,"date":"2014-12-18T00:02:22","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T00:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/12\/18\/do-not-let-any-calamity-howling-executive-with-an\/"},"modified":"2014-12-18T00:02:22","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T00:02:22","slug":"do-not-let-any-calamity-howling-executive-with-an","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/12\/18\/do-not-let-any-calamity-howling-executive-with-an\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Do not let any calamity-howling executive with an income of $1,000 a day, who has been turning his employees over to the Government relief rolls in order to preserve his company\u2019s undistributed reserves, tell you\u2014using his stockholders\u2019 money to pay the postage for his personal opinions &#8211; that a wage of $11 a week is going to have a disastrous effect on all American industry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.presidency.ucsb.edu\/ws\/?pid=15662\">FDR during a fireside chat, 1938<\/a><\/p>\n<p>amazing how this would be radical for any politician to say now. points to how far our parameters have shifted to the right.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/definedpleasures.tumblr.com\/\">definedpleasures<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>*glares pointedly at the entire Walton family*<\/p>\n<p>(via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/persian-slipper.tumblr.com\/\">persian-slipper<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do not let any calamity-howling executive with an income of $1,000 a day, who has been turning his employees over to the Government relief rolls in order to preserve his company\u2019s undistributed reserves, tell you\u2014using his stockholders\u2019 money to pay the postage for his personal opinions &#8211; that a wage of $11 a week is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/12\/18\/do-not-let-any-calamity-howling-executive-with-an\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}