{"id":14890,"date":"2014-06-26T19:04:20","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T02:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/?p=14890"},"modified":"2014-06-26T19:04:20","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T02:04:20","slug":"is-15hr-too-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/is-15hr-too-much\/","title":{"rendered":"Is $15\/hr too much?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Adam Mordecal<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Not-so-fun fact: A waiter&#8217;s minimum wage in America is $2.13 per hour plus tips. Waiters are three times more likely to fall under the poverty line than average workers, and women are three times more likely to be a waiter. They average $18,590 annually in income. Which ain&#8217;t much to live on. Which is why this waitress has something blunt and kind of hilarious to say.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u32XwObvTNA\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Thadra Sheridan (<\/span><a class=\"yt-uix-redirect-link\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #1b7fcc;\" title=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/thadrasheridan\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/thadrasheridan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/thadrasheridan<\/a><span style=\"color: #333333;\">) performing Waiting. Filmed by Jamie DeWolf (<\/span><a class=\"yt-uix-redirect-link\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #1b7fcc;\" title=\"http:\/\/www.jamiedewolf.com\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jamiedewolf.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.jamiedewolf.com\/<\/a><span style=\"color: #333333;\">).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Follow Button on Facebook:\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"yt-uix-redirect-link\" dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #1b7fcc;\" title=\"http:\/\/on.fb.me\/SG5Xm0\" href=\"http:\/\/on.fb.me\/SG5Xm0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/on.fb.me\/SG5Xm0<\/a><br style=\"color: #333333;\" \/><br style=\"color: #333333;\" \/><span style=\"color: #333333;\">About Button:<\/span><br style=\"color: #333333;\" \/><br style=\"color: #333333;\" \/><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Button Poetry is committed to developing a coherent and effective system of production, distribution, promotion and fundraising for spoken word and performance poetry.<\/span><br style=\"color: #333333;\" \/><br style=\"color: #333333;\" \/><span style=\"color: #333333;\">We seek to showcase the power and diversity of voices in our community. By encouraging and broadcasting the best and brightest performance poets of today, we hope to broaden poetry&#8217;s audience, to expand its reach and develop a greater level of cultural appreciation for the art form.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Adam Mordecal Not-so-fun fact: A waiter&#8217;s minimum wage in America is $2.13 per hour plus tips. Waiters are three times more likely to fall under the poverty line than average workers, and women are three times more likely to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/is-15hr-too-much\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14891,"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14890\/revisions\/14891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}