{"id":5898,"date":"2012-02-09T11:04:08","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T16:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=5898"},"modified":"2012-02-09T11:05:03","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T16:05:03","slug":"a-criminal-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=5898","title":{"rendered":"A criminal business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the good old days the government simply hired prisoners out to perform salary free hard labor for quarries, mines and other dangerous businesses especially black men convicted of such lethal crimes as &#8220;vagrancy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dailydish.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d83451c45669e2016761fc99ad970b-550wi\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/02\/05\/the_privatization_trap\/singleton\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the good old days the government simply hired prisoners out to perform salary free hard labor for quarries, mines and other dangerous businesses&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5898"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5898"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5900,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5898\/revisions\/5900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}