{"id":13019,"date":"2015-03-09T12:00:33","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T20:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=13019"},"modified":"2015-03-02T13:53:24","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T21:53:24","slug":"febmarch-zephyr-take-it-or-leave-it-in-defense-of-welfare-bums-lazy-loafersby-jim-stiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/09\/febmarch-zephyr-take-it-or-leave-it-in-defense-of-welfare-bums-lazy-loafersby-jim-stiles\/","title":{"rendered":"(Feb\/March Zephyr) Take it or Leave it: IN DEFENSE OF \u2018WELFARE BUMS\u2019 &#038; \u2018LAZY LOAFERS\u2019\u2026by Jim Stiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>An excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mary Fullmer was 31 years old. She had five children, the oldest was a girl, 15, who was already showing emotional issues in school. Ms. Fullmer, gaunt and haggard, looked a full decade older than her years . She always met me at the door and rarely let me inside her home. Mary was skittish and nervous, almost as if she were frightened, every time we talked. She always spoke with her hand over her mouth\u2014her ex-husband had a habit of showing up on weekends, drunk and violent, and whatever frustrations he was experiencing in life, he took them out on Mary. One night, he knocked out all of her upper front teeth. She couldn\u2019t smile, even on those rare occasions when she wanted to.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>To read more of Jim&#8217;s article, click the image below:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2015\/02\/02\/take-it-or-leave-it-in-defense-of-welfare-bums-lazy-loafers-by-jim-stiles\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-13020\" src=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/food-stamp-actual-001.jpg\" alt=\"food-stamp-actual-001\" width=\"540\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/food-stamp-actual-001.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/food-stamp-actual-001-300x141.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2015\/02\/02\/take-it-or-leave-it-in-defense-of-welfare-bums-lazy-loafers-by-jim-stiles\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/2015\/02\/02\/take-it-or-leave-it-in-defense-of-welfare-bums-lazy-loafers-by-jim-stiles\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An excerpt: Mary Fullmer was 31 years old. She had five children, the oldest was a girl, 15, who was already showing emotional issues in school. Ms. Fullmer, gaunt and haggard, looked a full decade older than her years . She always met me at the door and rarely let me inside her home. Mary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13021,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13019\/revisions\/13021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}