{"id":853,"date":"2006-08-04T10:41:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-04T10:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/wp\/?p=853"},"modified":"2006-10-09T23:00:30","modified_gmt":"2006-10-09T15:00:30","slug":"851-of-scraping-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=853","title":{"rendered":"[851] Of scraping the sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few hours before flying to Bangkok:<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" alt=\"Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams. Some rights reserved\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/klNearKLSentral.jpg?w=580\" \/><\/div>\n<p>This is somewhere near KL Sentral. <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Kuala%20Lumpur\">(tag)<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams. Some rights reserved\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/reusable\/the__earthinc.png?w=580\" \/> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams. Some rights reserved\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/reusable\/the__earthinc.png?w=580\" \/> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams. Some rights reserved\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maddruid.com\/Graphics\/reusable\/the__earthinc.png?w=580\" \/><\/p>\n<p>p\/s &#8211; Minimum wage is almost always counterprodutive to combat poverty. So, this is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/08\/04\/washington\/04cong.html\">a good move<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 &#8211; Senate Democrats on Thursday blocked legislation tying the first minimum wage increase in almost a decade to a decrease in the federal estate tax, denying Republicans a legislative victory as lawmakers head into a crucial month of campaigning before the November elections.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What surprises me is the fact that it&#8217;s the Republicans that are for wage floor increase and it&#8217;s the Democrats that fought against that raise. Ideologically, I&#8217;d expect the other way round.<\/p>\n<p>Heh. Elections make pragmatic politicians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a few hours before flying to Bangkok: This is somewhere near KL Sentral. (tag) p\/s &#8211; Minimum wage is almost always counterprodutive to combat poverty. So, this is a good move: WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 &#8211; Senate Democrats on Thursday blocked legislation tying the first minimum wage increase in almost a decade to a decrease [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-government","category-travels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}