{"id":1786,"date":"2009-08-02T05:57:52","date_gmt":"2009-08-02T13:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/?p=1786"},"modified":"2009-11-21T07:14:53","modified_gmt":"2009-11-21T15:14:53","slug":"the-working-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2009\/08\/02\/the-working-man\/","title":{"rendered":"The working man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Nothing changes<\/i><\/p>\n<p>When I was a kid growing up in London, I always used to wonder at public works employees.  You would invariably see one man digging a hole while four or five others watched.<\/p>\n<p>Much the same philosophy applies in the US, though as a nominally capitalist economy, we have reduced the worker:watcher ratio to 1:1 which, I suppose, is a bargain for the taxpayer.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/Worker_watcher.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\"\/><br \/>\n<i>G1, 1\/100, f\/6.3, ISO 100<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I watched these chaps for a couple of minutes and can attest that the fat one did absolutely nothing during that time. Spotted in The Tenderloin the other day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nothing changes When I was a kid growing up in London, I always used to wonder at public works employees. You would invariably see one man digging a hole while four or five others watched. Much the same philosophy applies in the US, though as a nominally capitalist economy, we have reduced the worker:watcher ratio &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2009\/08\/02\/the-working-man\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The working man<\/span> <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":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1786"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4231,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786\/revisions\/4231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}