{"id":462,"date":"2003-12-19T04:05:07","date_gmt":"2003-12-19T09:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/walk-a-mile\/"},"modified":"2003-12-19T04:05:07","modified_gmt":"2003-12-19T09:05:07","slug":"walk-a-mile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/2003\/12\/walk-a-mile\/","title":{"rendered":"walk a mile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i wandered into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/news\/oregonian\/index.ssf?\/base\/news\/1070888295191170.xml\" class=\"broken_link\">this<\/a> [demographics may be requested] story at the oregonian,  describing an interesting  effort to give politicians some <a href=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/walkmile\/index.html\">perspective<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"sourcequote\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oregonlive.com\/news\/oregonian\/index.ssf?\/base\/news\/1070888295191170.xml\" class=\"broken_link\">Officials get taste of how lower income live<\/a><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;I did try, &#8221; said [Multnomah County Commissioner Serena] Cruz, who was allotted $50 a week to feed herself and her husband. &#8220;You have to make all of your food. You have to bring your lunch. You can&#8217;t get your latte. It&#8217;s really hard.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>i&#8217;m going to go ahead and take the cheap shot:  yes.  without your latte, it&#8217;s <em>really<\/em> hard.<\/p>\n<p>$2.50 (tiny boring latte at starbucks) * 7 (days a week) * 2 (people) = $35.<\/p>\n<p>and with that out of the way, what i really want to do with this post is draw attention to the <a href=\"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/walkmile\/index.html\">walk a mile<\/a> program.  most of us don&#8217;t have a staff (or legal exceptions) to smooth life over around all the legal messes and policy decisions that our politicians create.<\/p>\n<p>perspective is a good thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i wandered into this [demographics may be requested] story at the oregonian, describing an interesting effort to give politicians some perspective. Officials get taste of how lower income live &#8220;I did try, &#8221; said [Multnomah County Commissioner Serena] Cruz, who was allotted $50 a week to feed herself and her husband. &#8220;You have to make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rojisan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}