{"id":8390,"date":"2013-09-21T17:51:36","date_gmt":"2013-09-21T21:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=8390"},"modified":"2013-09-21T18:00:35","modified_gmt":"2013-09-21T22:00:35","slug":"1000-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=8390","title":{"rendered":"= 1000 words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130921-173850.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/20130921-173850.jpg\" alt=\"20130921-173850.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fns.usda.gov\/wic\">WIC<\/a> is the women infants and children food assistance program &#8211; in addition to food stamps and free lunches at school WIC offers single women free food necessities for small children &#8211; milk, butter, dairy products and apparently $3.99 per pound lettuce.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I visited the freedom mall in Charlotte which no longer exists. In that mall there was a Bi-Lo supermarket which is now located across the street.<\/p>\n<p>This neighborhood is about 90% black. I knew that when I went there.  My purpose was to see how the city has evolved in the last 30 years. I would generally describe my experience as &#8220;do you know where you are?&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It was not open hostility, but more like &#8220;you understand you just broke the rules right?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p> Since everyone knows that fat people are stupid, the grocery clerk tried to shortchange me $1 at the checkout.  It was pretty overt &#8211; when the change is $1.58 and you give me $0.58, I&#8217;m gonna notice.   <\/p>\n<p>The old Freedom Mall is now the enormous Department of Social Services where they hand out food stamps, EBT,  WIC  and all sorts of other free Obama stuff &#8211; so I was right in the heart of the Obama territory.  I be watchin y&#8217;all, git it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WIC is the women infants and children food assistance program &#8211; in addition to food stamps and free lunches at school WIC offers single women free food necessities for small children &#8211; milk, butter, dairy products and apparently $3.99 per &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=8390\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collapse-of-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8390"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8394,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8390\/revisions\/8394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}