{"id":3216,"date":"2014-10-27T00:16:10","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T00:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/10\/27\/im-tired-of-hearing-about-the-minimum-wage-i\/"},"modified":"2014-10-27T00:16:10","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T00:16:10","slug":"im-tired-of-hearing-about-the-minimum-wage-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/10\/27\/im-tired-of-hearing-about-the-minimum-wage-i\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I\u2019m tired of hearing about the minimum wage. I really am. \u2026I don\u2019t think there\u2019s a mother or a father sitting around the kitchen table tonight in America saying, \u2018You know, honey, if our son or daughter could just make a higher minimum wage, my God, all of our dreams would be realized.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p><strong>New Jersey governor and compassionate Republican CHRIS CHRISTIE, who by the way pulls down $699,000 a year along with his wife.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/politics\/christie-tired-hearing-minimum-wage-article-1.1982653\"><strong>The New York\u00a0<em>Daily News\u00a0<\/em>calls him out and dares him to try living on $17,000 a year \u2014 or what a person making New Jersey\u2019s minimum wage brings home annually.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Fucker.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/moniquill.tumblr.com\/\">moniquill<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m tired of hearing about the minimum wage. I really am. \u2026I don\u2019t think there\u2019s a mother or a father sitting around the kitchen table tonight in America saying, \u2018You know, honey, if our son or daughter could just make a higher minimum wage, my God, all of our dreams would be realized. New Jersey &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2014\/10\/27\/im-tired-of-hearing-about-the-minimum-wage-i\/\" 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":[51],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3216"}],"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=3216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}