{"id":171,"date":"2003-08-04T16:28:00","date_gmt":"2003-08-04T16:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=171"},"modified":"2018-08-03T10:25:40","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T15:25:40","slug":"171","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/08\/04\/171\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploitive Child Labor in the Twenty-First Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Kass of the <i>Chicago Tribune<\/i> has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/columnists\/chi-0308030291aug03,1,5094430.column?coll=chi-news-col\" target=\"new\">uncovered<\/a> (registration required) a shocking case of child labor in <b>Chicago<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, the Illinois Department of Labor has stepped in and used its Powers of Discretionary <strike>Persecution<\/strike> Prosecution to punish the grandmother who paid her grandchildren in token money or candy to wash the window of her resale shop.<\/p>\n<p>Coming next: an all-out assault on parents who expect their offspring to <i>do chores<\/i> for their allowances.  Undoubtedly, the parents, like the state, should just dish out money for nothing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Kass of the Chicago Tribune has uncovered (registration required) a shocking case of child labor in Chicago. Fortunately, the Illinois Department of Labor has stepped in and used its Powers of Discretionary Persecution Prosecution to punish the grandmother who paid her grandchildren in token money or candy to wash the window of her resale [&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-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","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=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21624,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/21624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}