{"id":1000,"date":"2004-06-03T01:37:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-03T01:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1000"},"modified":"2018-08-13T16:07:49","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T21:07:49","slug":"1000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/03\/1000\/","title":{"rendered":"Defending Wal-Mart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s <i>St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/i>, David Nicklaus <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/business\/columnists.nsf\/David+Nicklaus\/73539D48CF6FC26286256EA7004A7551?OpenDocument&#038;Headline=+Wal-Mart+foes+foment+class+warfare+in+seeking+store+ban+\" target=\"new\">defends Wal-Mart<\/a>.  Good to see someone with a proper capitalist attitude writing on the business page.<\/p>\n<p>Sample:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWal-Mart may be a danger to competitors or even to retail clerks&#8217; unions. But it&#8217;s hard to imagine the retailer damaging an entire state.<\/p>\n<p>Yet that&#8217;s the claim of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, which last week listed Vermont among the nation&#8217;s 11 most endangered historic places. The threat, the National Trust&#8217;s news release said, is &#8220;an invasion of behemoth stores that could destroy much of what makes Vermont Vermont.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Preservationists should stick to saving historic buildings and neighborhoods from the bulldozer and wrecking ball. When they try to keep one company out of an entire state, they&#8217;re really fomenting class warfare. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not class warfare.  They&#8217;re trying to foment a Marxist revolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s St. Louis Post-Dispatch, David Nicklaus defends Wal-Mart. Good to see someone with a proper capitalist attitude writing on the business page. Sample: Wal-Mart may be a danger to competitors or even to retail clerks&#8217; unions. But it&#8217;s hard to imagine the retailer damaging an entire state. Yet that&#8217;s the claim of the National [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23251,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions\/23251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}