{"id":87018,"date":"2024-02-20T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87018"},"modified":"2024-02-19T07:15:09","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T13:15:09","slug":"meanwhile-in-minnetonka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87018","title":{"rendered":"Meanwhile In Minnetonka"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Can you tell a Hennepin County city government&#8217;s priorities by its budget?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let&#8217;s check:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fireman:  living wage (barely).  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the DEI intern?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">2 government job postings in the same city:<br><br>One is to put your life on the line and be a firefighter which pays $15-$19 an hour.<br><br>One is to be a DEI intern to scream at white people how racist they are which pays up to $22 an hour<br><br>\ud83e\udd21\ud83c\udf0e <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Janq1NzApr\">pic.twitter.com\/Janq1NzApr<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Chaya Raichik (@ChayaRaichik10) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChayaRaichik10\/status\/1754952815166820843?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 6, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m old enough to remember when the western suburbs were a little outpost of sanity. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you tell a Hennepin County city government&#8217;s priorities by its budget? Let&#8217;s check: Fireman: living wage (barely). And the DEI intern? I&#8217;m old enough to remember when the western suburbs were a little outpost of sanity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87019,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87018\/revisions\/87019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}