{"id":752,"date":"2005-07-20T19:06:39","date_gmt":"2005-07-21T02:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/wp2\/uncategorized\/what-an-ass-we-have-in-trever\/"},"modified":"2005-07-20T19:06:39","modified_gmt":"2005-07-21T02:06:39","slug":"what-an-ass-we-have-in-trever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/letters-to-the-editor\/what-an-ass-we-have-in-trever\/","title":{"rendered":"What An Ass We Have In Trever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s see Trever&#8217;s latest gem:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/pix\/trever_2005\/1trever07-20-05.gif\" alt=\"ridiculing a fair minimum wage\"\/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What we get from the ever clever Trever is a useful insight into the thoughts of opponents of a fair and living minimum wage. This view puts the individual above all (<b>every man for himself<\/b>) and belittles anyone&#8217;s effort to improve the good of more than himself. The loud and clear message of Trever&#8217;s latest screams: &#8220;Hey, kid, it&#8217;s stupid to try to elevate an entire class. Come on, get selfish, get self-serving!&#8221; All wrapped up tidily, of course, with over-arching ridicule for caring or trying. He represents the Albuquerque Journal to a T.  The Chamber of Con-men should give him an award. mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s see Trever&#8217;s latest gem: What we get from the ever clever Trever is a useful insight into the thoughts of opponents of a fair and living minimum wage. This view puts the individual above all (every man for himself) and belittles anyone&#8217;s effort to improve the good of more than himself. The loud and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/letters-to-the-editor\/what-an-ass-we-have-in-trever\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What An Ass We Have In Trever<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-to-the-editor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}