{"id":1512,"date":"2005-02-28T10:36:07","date_gmt":"2005-02-28T15:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/02\/walmart_corporate_citizenship\/"},"modified":"2005-02-28T10:36:07","modified_gmt":"2005-02-28T15:36:07","slug":"walmart_corporate_citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/02\/walmart_corporate_citizenship\/","title":{"rendered":"Wal-Mart Corporate Citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Timothy Noah <a title=\"The Wal-Mart Manifesto - The retail giant's CEO says his company pays workers handsomely. He doesn't want you to believe him.\" href=\"http:\/\/slate.msn.com\/id\/2113954\/\">points out<\/a> what  most people interested in the issue probably already know&#8211;that Wal-Mart doesn&#8217;t pay its employees very well.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, Frank Rich notes that if the public doesn&#8217;t approve of Wal-Mart&#8217;s labor practices, one couldn&#8217;t tell.  For we continue to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/02\/28\/opinion\/28reich.html?ex=1267333200&#038;en=8f6f512f48f7cf18&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland\">reward bad behavior<\/a> by demanding the lowest prices on everything.<br \/>\nYes, I&#8217;m guilty as charged.  Not only is there that price factor, but Wal-Mart is also the closest store to the house.  So I can be spotted there on occasion.  Makes it harder to complain about the corporate practices, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/02\/walmart_corporate_citizenship\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Wal-Mart Corporate Citizenship\"><p>Timothy Noah points out what most people interested in the issue probably already know&#8211;that Wal-Mart doesn&#8217;t pay its employees very well. Meanwhile, Frank Rich notes that if the public doesn&#8217;t approve of Wal-Mart&#8217;s labor practices, one couldn&#8217;t tell. For we continue to reward bad behavior by demanding the lowest prices on everything. Yes, I&#8217;m guilty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1512","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}