{"id":70,"date":"2020-01-21T09:58:07","date_gmt":"2020-01-21T17:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/?p=70"},"modified":"2020-01-21T09:58:07","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T17:58:07","slug":"things-are-the-way-they-are-for-a-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/21\/things-are-the-way-they-are-for-a-reason\/","title":{"rendered":"Things are the way they are for a reason."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Things are the way they are for a reason. This 30-day return policy, that 365-day return policy, that infuriating phone tree system, the carpool lane hours, the traffic light that protects left turns. Sometimes it\u2019s a good reason, sometimes it\u2019s a bad reason.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes it\u2019s just because no one has cared enough to change it yet. Sometimes it\u2019s because no one has been brave enough yet.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rosa_Parks\">Rosa Parks<\/a> is remembered for a reason. She saw no reason for her to stand up and relinquish her seat to a standing white passenger at the order of the bus driver. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things are the way they are for a reason. This 30-day return policy, that 365-day return policy, that infuriating phone tree system, the carpool lane hours, the traffic light that protects left turns. Sometimes it\u2019s a good reason, sometimes it\u2019s a bad reason.\u00a0 Sometimes it\u2019s just because no one has cared enough to change it &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/21\/things-are-the-way-they-are-for-a-reason\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Things are the way they are for a reason.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mitchelljoe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}