{"id":8064,"date":"2010-04-22T08:00:36","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T13:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=8064"},"modified":"2010-03-23T12:28:39","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T17:28:39","slug":"archer-dan-what-a-whopper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/?p=8064","title":{"rendered":"Archer, Dan &#8211; What A Whopper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archcomix.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Website<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/whatawhopper1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"whatawhopper1\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/whatawhopper1-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>What a Whopper<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A comic with a message!\u00c2\u00a0 Sorry, even with all the chaos in the world I  rarely see something cross my desk that&#8217;s this socially conscious, with  all sorts of links to boot.\u00c2\u00a0 This is the story of migrant workers in  general and a group of workers in Florida from last year specifically.\u00c2\u00a0  Did you know that a fair amount of migrant workers are essentially  legalized slaves?\u00c2\u00a0 Sure looks like it&#8217;s true.\u00c2\u00a0 And don&#8217;t start with any  crap about how they choose to come here and the free market has to  regulate itself.\u00c2\u00a0 One read through of this issue will show what a joke  that is, not to mention if you happen to dig even a little bit through  the links on the back page.\u00c2\u00a0 The connection to Burger King is simple:  even after several companies finally did the right thing and accepted  some regulations, Burger King wouldn&#8217;t do so, offering increasingly  ridiculous reasons as to why not.\u00c2\u00a0 Dan says that after this was  published BK did finally accept some of these conditions (like, for  example, a 1 cent raise per pound of tomatoes) but it still holds up as a  powerful, concise and even entertaining recap of the circumstances a  good chunk of the unseen population of this country lives with every  day.\u00c2\u00a0 Or they used to, anyway.\u00c2\u00a0 Things do seem to be improving, but man  were they ever in the crapper to start with.\u00c2\u00a0 $3<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/whatawhopper2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"whatawhopper2\" src=\"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/whatawhopper2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Website What a Whopper A comic with a message!\u00c2\u00a0 Sorry, even with all the chaos in the world I rarely see something cross my desk that&#8217;s this socially conscious, with all sorts of links to boot.\u00c2\u00a0 This is the story of migrant workers in general and a group of workers in Florida from last year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2470,551],"class_list":["post-8064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-dan-archer","tag-what-a-whopper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8064"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8069,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8064\/revisions\/8069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opticalsloth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}