{"id":2033,"date":"2023-10-13T21:21:29","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T21:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mytownnews.ca\/index.php\/2023\/10\/13\/insult-to-the-poor-51\/"},"modified":"2023-10-13T21:21:29","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T21:21:29","slug":"insult-to-the-poor-51","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mytownnews.ca\/index.php\/2023\/10\/13\/insult-to-the-poor-51\/","title":{"rendered":"Insult to the poor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Letter to the Editor, A one-dollar increase in the minimum wage is a slap in the face to the needy people of Canada, even if it was doubled to $30 an hour. They still couldn\u2019t qualify for a house mortgage or barely pay the rent on a house or apartment. It must be pretty frustrating [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Letter to the Editor, A one-dollar increase in the minimum wage is a slap in the face to the needy people of Canada, even if it was doubled to $30 an hour. They still couldn\u2019t qualify for a house mortgage or barely pay the rent on a house or apartment. It must be pretty frustrating&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mytownnews.ca\/index.php\/2023\/10\/13\/insult-to-the-poor-51\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Insult to the poor<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","neve_meta_reading_time":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_ti_tpc_template_sync":false,"_ti_tpc_template_id":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eca-review-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mytownnews.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mytownnews.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mytownnews.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mytownnews.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mytownnews.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mytownnews.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mytownnews.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mytownnews.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}