{"id":102305,"date":"2013-01-11T07:26:09","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T12:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/102305\/but-that-is-the-way-it-is\/"},"modified":"2013-01-11T07:26:09","modified_gmt":"2013-01-11T12:26:09","slug":"but-that-is-the-way-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/102305\/but-that-is-the-way-it-is\/","title":{"rendered":"but that IS the way it is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"4\"><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\">I think it&#8217;s fair to say that in America (even in 2013) minorities are NOT treated equally to Caucasian<font size=\"4\">s&#8230;That stinks&#8230;but there\u00a0 are (IMO) some situations where minorities are treated better&#8230;the &#8220;jerk&#8221; at the arts and crafts store is still there because 1) often, as soon as an employer fires a minority employee, they start hollering &#8220;DISCRIMINATION<font size=\"4\">&#8220;&#8211;and controversy\/bad press is bad for business&#8230;and 2) *I* think the Manager (and perhaps his assistant) is burned out and doesn&#8217;t give a fuck&#8230;so they got rid of me and kept him, not knowing that he doesn&#8217;t give a f**k either&#8230;except he wants the money&#8211;we have THAT in common&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"4\"><font face=\"comic sans ms,sans-serif\"><font size=\"4\"><font size=\"4\">I have a gig tonight, moderately excited about that&#8230;As of last night I was given permission to use the roomie&#8217;s car to get there and back&#8230;Parking in that neighborhood is a problem, but a minor one&#8230;And there&#8217;s the gig on Saturday, THAT&#8217;S gonn<font size=\"4\">a be innaresting, to say the least&#8230;there&#8217;s money in my pocke<font size=\"4\">t AND in the Bank&#8230;Life is Good&#8230;<\/font><\/font><br \/>\n<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think it&#8217;s fair to say that in America (even in 2013) minorities are NOT treated equally to Caucasians&#8230;That stinks&#8230;but there\u00a0 are (IMO) some situations where minorities are treated better&#8230;the &#8220;jerk&#8221; at the arts and crafts store is still there because 1) often, as soon as an employer fires a minority employee, they start hollering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}