{"id":1736,"date":"2004-09-29T21:22:15","date_gmt":"2004-09-30T01:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=1736"},"modified":"2004-09-29T21:23:01","modified_gmt":"2004-09-30T01:23:01","slug":"big-bogging-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/29\/big-bogging-box\/","title":{"rendered":"big bogging box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every day, I walk past some fields in Burlington. They&#8217;re alive with the ringing of crickets, the autumn crops are coming on nicely, and Canada geese pad around warily. Idyllic, no?<\/p>\n<p>Today I discover that this is slated to become a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walmart.com\/\">Wal-Mart<\/a>. Yuk! Can there be anything more hideous than a Wal-Mart? <em>Always Low Wages&nbsp;&hellip; <strong>Always!<\/strong><\/em> should be their motto. Catherine&#8217;s hometown square has been destroyed by a gargantuan Mal-Wart just outside the city limits. These stores are ugly, and they smell.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t often find myself agreeing with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.torontosun.com\/\">Toronto Sun<\/a> columnist, but Marianne Meed Ward wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What&#8217;s right and fair is a living wage. Until Wal-Mart (and other discount retailers, restaurants and businesses) provide it, it&#8217;s not ethical to shop there.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>in her June 27th column, titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canoe.ca\/NewsStand\/Columnists\/Toronto\/Marianne_Meed_Ward\/2004\/06\/27\/515874.html\">Lining up for poverty<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So, please, Burlington Ontario doesn&#8217;t need another Wal-Mart. It needs green spaces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every day, I walk past some fields in Burlington. They&#8217;re alive with the ringing of crickets, the autumn crops are coming on nicely, and Canada geese pad around warily. Idyllic, no? Today I discover that this is slated to become a Wal-Mart. Yuk! Can there be anything more hideous than a Wal-Mart? Always Low Wages&nbsp;&hellip; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[1235,1234],"class_list":["post-1736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-o-canada","tag-burlington","tag-walmart"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-s0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}