{"id":2212,"date":"2005-05-02T21:15:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-02T21:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2212"},"modified":"2018-06-29T07:15:16","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T12:15:16","slug":"2212","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/02\/2212\/","title":{"rendered":"Practical Joke of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The laws of economics have really <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/04\/28\/AR2005042801908.html\" target=\"_new\">pulled a good one<\/a> on the AFL-CIO:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>AFL-CIO President John J. Sweeney, who is facing challenges from some of the labor federation&#8217;s largest member unions, yesterday acknowledged that the organization is financially squeezed and may have to lay off a quarter of its workforce.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If only those employees had a union&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>(Link seen on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.janegalt.net\/blog\/archives\/005300.html\" target=\"_new\">Asymmetrical Info<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The laws of economics have really pulled a good one on the AFL-CIO: AFL-CIO President John J. Sweeney, who is facing challenges from some of the labor federation&#8217;s largest member unions, yesterday acknowledged that the organization is financially squeezed and may have to lay off a quarter of its workforce. If only those employees had [&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-2212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212","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=2212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20241,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212\/revisions\/20241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}