{"id":53594,"date":"2015-05-27T05:00:03","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T10:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=53594"},"modified":"2015-05-27T08:51:39","modified_gmt":"2015-05-27T13:51:39","slug":"53594","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=53594","title":{"rendered":"Balance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A former colleague was laid off last year, he\u2019s been struggling. He writes:<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>Applied for a job with [unit of government name redacted]. Sorry, they needed a person of color to achieve diversity in the workforce.<\/p>\n<p>Applied for a job with [downtown law firm name redacted]. Sorry, they needed a gay person.<\/p>\n<p>Applied for a job with [corporate headquarters name redacted]. Sorry, they needed a woman.<\/p>\n<p>Just once, I\u2019d like to be judged on the content of my character.<\/p>\n<p>I have a dream . . . .<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>Silly middle-aged White Male; dreams are for kids.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s so 1963&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: A former colleague was laid off last year, he\u2019s been struggling. He writes: *** Applied for a job with [unit of government name redacted]. Sorry, they needed a person of color to achieve diversity in the workforce. Applied for a job with [downtown law firm name redacted]. Sorry, they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,54,308],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-ebony-and-ivory","category-entitled-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53594"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53607,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53594\/revisions\/53607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}