{"id":276,"date":"2011-06-21T15:41:08","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T13:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/borkedcode.com\/wp\/?p=276"},"modified":"2011-06-21T15:41:08","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T13:41:08","slug":"well-thats-one-way-to-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.borkedcode.com\/wp2\/2011\/06\/21\/well-thats-one-way-to-do-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, that&#8217;s one way to do it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, a gentleman in North Carolina who was laid off from Coca-Cola three years ago became so desperate for health care that <a title=\"Man commits robbery to get health care\" href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/health\/2011\/06\/20\/249307\/georgia-man-robs-for-health\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he robbed a convenience store in order to be incarcerated, where he would receive medical attention<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This should be a national embarrassment, that we are among the most successful countries in the world, but our citizens are dying on their feet because they can&#8217;t afford health care. \u00a0That&#8217;s the kind of thing I would expect to see in a third-world shithole like Haiti, not the USA. \u00a0It&#8217;s why we should be thankful of workers&#8217; unions, not resentful of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, a gentleman in North Carolina who was laid off from Coca-Cola three years ago became so desperate for health care that he robbed a convenience store in order to be incarcerated, where he would receive medical attention. This should &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.borkedcode.com\/wp2\/2011\/06\/21\/well-thats-one-way-to-do-it\/\">Continue reading <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":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.borkedcode.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.borkedcode.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.borkedcode.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.borkedcode.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.borkedcode.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.borkedcode.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.borkedcode.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.borkedcode.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.borkedcode.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}