{"id":6783,"date":"2011-06-13T18:30:54","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T22:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=6783"},"modified":"2011-06-12T15:14:01","modified_gmt":"2011-06-12T19:14:01","slug":"monday-various-81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=6783","title":{"rendered":"Monday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Buy a &#8220;mega jug&#8221; (their words) of soda with your meal, and KFC will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cynical-c.com\/2011\/06\/09\/kfc-donates-to-diabetes-research-by-selling-soda\/?\">donate money to diabetes research<\/a>. That&#8217;s irony coming full circle.<\/li>\n<li>The US State Department reportedly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/161057\/wikileaks-haiti-let-them-live-3-day\">lobbied against a minimum wage increase in Haiti<\/a> on behalf of textile corporations. That&#8217;s just scummy. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cynical-c.com\" title=\"Cynical-C\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Fuckin&#8217; A: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theawl.com\/2011\/05\/new-yorker-profanity\">profanity at the <i>New Yorker<\/i><\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/KBAndersen\" title=\"@KBAndersen\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2011\/may\/25\/china-prisoners-internet-gaming-scam\">China used prisoners in lucrative internet gaming work<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.wordpress.com\/\" title=\"Gerry Canavan\">via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>And finally, Jonathan Coulton on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonathancoulton.com\/2011\/05\/23\/on-snuggies-and-business-models\/\">Snuggies and Business Models<\/a>. The Planet Money podcast is worth listening to, if you haven&#8217;t already.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buy a &#8220;mega jug&#8221; (their words) of soda with your meal, and KFC will donate money to diabetes research. That&#8217;s irony coming full circle. The US State Department reportedly lobbied against a minimum wage increase in Haiti on behalf of textile corporations. That&#8217;s just scummy. [via] Fuckin&#8217; A: profanity at the New Yorker. [via] China &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=6783\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[67,178,21,172,64,78,60,15,37,10],"class_list":["post-6783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-america","tag-ethics","tag-food","tag-journalism","tag-language","tag-magazines","tag-money","tag-music","tag-news","tag-various"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6783"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}