{"id":1549,"date":"2014-05-12T23:13:07","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T06:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/?p=1549"},"modified":"2025-08-29T19:37:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T02:37:22","slug":"15-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/15-now\/","title":{"rendered":"15 Now"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Tune: Sixteen Tons<br>By Jo-Hanna Read<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Chorus:<\/strong><br>Work for minimum wage and what do you get?<br>Another day older and deeper in debt.<br>The poverty level is more than you earn.<br>While the company bosses have money to burn!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You work hard for all your life.<br>And so do your children, your husband or wife.<br>You wait on tables, you sweep the floor.<br>No matter how hard ya work, you\u2019re poorer than poor<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Chorus<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We say 15 Now is the way to go.<br>We need it right now, no need to go slow.<br>Deducting tips and benefits will not do!<br>If you think that\u2019s fair, you don\u2019t have a clue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Chorus<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Big business is worried that we\u2019ll get this through,<br>So they started OneSeattle with their big business crew.<br>Now they\u2019re gettin\u2019 small businesses to front their lines<br>With misinformation and downright lies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Work for min\u2019mum wage and what do you get?<br>Another day older and deeper in debt.<br>The poverty level is more than you earn.<br>While the company bosses have money to burn!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tune: Sixteen TonsBy Jo-Hanna Read Chorus:Work for minimum wage and what do you get?Another day older and deeper in debt.The poverty level is more than you earn.While the company bosses have money to burn! You work hard for all your life.And so do your children, your husband or wife.You wait on tables, you sweep the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,35,11,36],"tags":[55],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549"}],"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=1549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raginggrannies.org\/seattle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}