{"id":1239,"date":"2008-01-21T16:32:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-21T21:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawrencem94.sg-host.com\/?p=1239"},"modified":"2008-01-21T16:32:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-21T21:32:00","slug":"mlk-conversations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/?p=1239","title":{"rendered":"MLK Conversations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, a certain someone suggested if I ever got around to sending out holiday cards by Martin Luther King Day, they could be from our dogs. I thought it was hilarious. Sadly, I haven&#8217;t gotten to the card part. Sigh. But our dogs are definitely celebrating the holiday (they get to hang out inside because JWo also doesn&#8217;t have to work). Good luck to them on the equality bit, though. The Magic Door to the Great and Tasty Food doesn&#8217;t open unless ya got opposable thumbs.<\/p>\n<p>The other conversation I had today was with a co-worker. Her father-in-law works at a very large government facility here in town that may or may not make high-tech weaponry, may or may not employ cell phone jamming systems in its vicinity and its old name may or may not rhyme with &#8220;Windex&#8221;.  There, apparently, all black employees can take today off (unpaid). But white employees can&#8217;t. Which I thought was weird. I asked her, &#8220;But what if you embraced the ideas and beliefs of MLK?&#8221; and got your basic &#8220;Tough shit.&#8221; I mean, hell. A day off -unpaid- I&#8217;d think you couldn&#8217;t restrict who can or can&#8217;t celebrate a holiday based on skin color. Maybe it&#8217;s one of those unwritten rule things. All I know is that because there were no traffic po-lice out today, my commute was squished because people left their cars in areas that are normally tow zones, and I was most definitely NOT feeling the love for my fellow humans.<\/p>\n<p>So, if you got the day off today, I hope it was enjoyable &#038; filled with relaxation and hobbies!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, a certain someone suggested if I ever got around to sending out holiday cards by Martin Luther King Day, they could be from our dogs. I thought it was hilarious. Sadly, I haven&#8217;t gotten to the card part. Sigh. But our dogs are definitely celebrating the holiday (they get to hang out inside because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}