{"id":3087,"date":"2006-05-11T21:37:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-11T21:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3087"},"modified":"2017-12-20T16:26:17","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T22:26:17","slug":"casuality-is-not-just-a-river-in-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/11\/casuality-is-not-just-a-river-in-egypt\/","title":{"rendered":"Casuality Is Not Just A River In Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/i>, today, exclaims <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/business\/stories.nsf\/story\/8D48C018B479E43F8625716B00179E24?OpenDocument\" target=\"_new\">Blue-collar workers are paid well here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In St. Louis, it&#8217;s good to wear a blue collar.<\/p>\n<p>Despite a wide wage gap in most parts of the country, local blue-collar workers barely trailed their more educated white-collar peers in pay last year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Last week, in an article by the very same writer, the <i>St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/i> lamented <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/business\/stories.nsf\/0\/C1930EFDFA9C623C86257166005B94B1?OpenDocument\" target=\"_new\">Retail overtakes manufacturing<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After decades of industrial layoffs, the St. Louis area has hit an unsettling milestone: More residents now work in retail stores than in manufacturing plants.<\/p>\n<p>The news isn&#8217;t surprising. Manufacturing employment has slipped below retailing in selected months in recent years. But last year was the first time it was true year-round.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And never the twain shall meet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Louis Post-Dispatch, today, exclaims Blue-collar workers are paid well here: In St. Louis, it&#8217;s good to wear a blue collar. Despite a wide wage gap in most parts of the country, local blue-collar workers barely trailed their more educated white-collar peers in pay last year. Last week, in an article by the very same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-st-louis-post-dispatch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3087","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=3087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18781,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3087\/revisions\/18781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}