{"id":566,"date":"2006-09-04T08:43:53","date_gmt":"2006-09-04T08:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/09\/04\/ah-the-power-of-labor\/"},"modified":"2006-09-04T08:43:53","modified_gmt":"2006-09-04T08:43:53","slug":"ah-the-power-of-labor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/09\/04\/ah-the-power-of-labor\/","title":{"rendered":"Ah, the Power of Labor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Labor Day today in the US, which means it&#8217;s a day off from work for everybody who isn&#8217;t in academia. Our fall classes start Wednesday, though, so I&#8217;m going to spend Labor Day, well, laboring. This is nothing new, but at least it&#8217;s better than my first year, when classes started <strong>on<\/strong> Labor Day.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I know that in the current Gilded Age, we&#8217;re supposed to regard labor unions as just this side of Pure Evil for their interference with the joys of unfettered capitalism, but if you&#8217;re lucky enough to have the day off, take a few minutes to reflect on the good things organized labor has given us. Things like moderately safe working conditions,  the 40-hour work week, and, well, Labor Day.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy the extended weekend. I&#8217;ll be in my office, prepping for classes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Labor Day today in the US, which means it&#8217;s a day off from work for everybody who isn&#8217;t in academia. Our fall classes start Wednesday, though, so I&#8217;m going to spend Labor Day, well, laboring. This is nothing new, but at least it&#8217;s better than my first year, when classes started on Labor Day.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/09\/04\/ah-the-power-of-labor\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ah, the Power of Labor<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}