{"id":1114,"date":"2013-01-28T18:26:27","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T02:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/?p=1114"},"modified":"2013-01-28T18:26:27","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T02:26:27","slug":"work-first-lament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/work-first-lament\/","title":{"rendered":"Work First Lament"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><em>by Kay Thode <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>tune: Ol\u2019 Man River<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Slavin\u2019 at Work First, we start at daybreak,<br \/>\nGettin\u2019 the kids up and off to day care,<br \/>\nAnd then get the bus and work nine hours till dusk.<\/p>\n<p>When work is over, we get the kiddies,<br \/>\nAnd do the shoppin\u2019 and then the cookin\u2019,<br \/>\nBut laundry\u2019s waitin\u2019 and kids have homework to do.<\/p>\n<p>Welfare moms all sweat and slave<br \/>\nAt dead end jobs for minimum wage,<br \/>\nWork all day, then at night,<br \/>\nKeep getting poorer, no end in si-ight.<\/p>\n<p>We are tired and sick of tryin\u2019.<br \/>\nCan\u2019t pay the rent and the kids are tryin\u2019.<br \/>\nBut the welfare clo-ock, it just keeps tickin\u2019,<br \/>\nIt just keeps tickin\u2019 along.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Kay Thode tune: Ol\u2019 Man River Slavin\u2019 at Work First, we start at daybreak, Gettin\u2019 the kids up and off to day care, And then get the bus and work nine hours till dusk. When work is over, we get the kiddies, And do the shoppin\u2019 and then the cookin\u2019, But laundry\u2019s waitin\u2019 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[57],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}