{"id":309,"date":"2017-03-04T14:06:37","date_gmt":"2017-03-04T19:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/?p=309"},"modified":"2017-03-04T14:06:37","modified_gmt":"2017-03-04T19:06:37","slug":"ehrenreich-1-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/barbara-ehrenreich\/ehrenreich-1-60\/","title":{"rendered":"Ehrenreich, 1-60"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the first 60 pages of Nickel and Dimed, Ehrenreich introduces us to her experience working as a minimum wage waitress in two Florida restaurants. What struck me in this reading is how similar the storylines of her coworkers are to my own in Bowdoin dining. I work dishwashing at Moulton twice a week, and often overhear the concerns of Brunswick locals that are doing this job as a means of getting by. Health concerns, working two jobs, and horrible habits like alcoholism or smoking are common points between the Brunswick minimum wage reality and minimum wage in Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the first 60 pages of Nickel and Dimed, Ehrenreich introduces us to her experience working as a minimum wage waitress in two Florida restaurants. What struck me in this reading is how similar the storylines of her coworkers are to my own in Bowdoin dining. I work dishwashing at Moulton twice a week, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barbara-ehrenreich"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}