{"id":69835,"date":"2019-01-29T11:00:11","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T17:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=69835"},"modified":"2019-01-28T18:36:26","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T00:36:26","slug":"comforting-the-comfortable-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=69835","title":{"rendered":"Comforting The Comfortable"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To:   Andrew Zimmern, Celebrity Chef<br>From: Mitch Berg, irascible peasant<br>Re:   Appreciation!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chef,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I caught this on Twitter over the past weekend:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Although the government shutdown is ending, at @lucky_cricket_west_end we are planning to continue to serve all those with a Fed Gov ID throughout next week, Monday-Friday, 2-5pm. We realize that furloughed workers will continue to need food since they h\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/h6qga7mPUP\">https:\/\/t.co\/h6qga7mPUP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/67fbA92RaC\">pic.twitter.com\/67fbA92RaC<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Andrew Zimmern (@andrewzimmern) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/andrewzimmern\/status\/1089522348590534656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 27, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote>\n<script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>Glad to see you&#8217;ll be giving &#8220;Free&#8221; food to people who missed <em>two&nbsp;checks&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;well, no.  Wait.  They had two checks <em>delayed&nbsp;<\/em>before getting it all paid back, amid a national welter of corporate virtue signaling of financial support &#8211; extremely low-interest loans, offers to skip payments, and, well, free food. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I and a few million private sector workers would have loved some of that &#8216;compassion&#8221; when we were struggling.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Know what I heard from one bill collector when I was out of work back in 2003?   &#8220;Get a job&#8221;.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hold that thought, Chef. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That is all. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To: Andrew Zimmern, Celebrity ChefFrom: Mitch Berg, irascible peasantRe: Appreciation! Chef, I caught this on Twitter over the past weekend: Although the government shutdown is ending, at @lucky_cricket_west_end we are planning to continue to serve all those with a Fed Gov ID throughout next week, Monday-Friday, 2-5pm. We realize that furloughed workers will continue to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[308],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entitled-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69835","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=69835"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69860,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69835\/revisions\/69860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}