{"id":606,"date":"2004-12-20T13:16:09","date_gmt":"2004-12-20T21:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscorrigan.com\/blogs\/?p=606"},"modified":"2004-12-20T13:16:09","modified_gmt":"2004-12-20T21:16:09","slug":"the-work-less-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/the-work-less-party\/","title":{"rendered":"The Work Less Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My old friend and neighbour Tom Walker has surfaced as a candidate for a new political party here in BC: the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worklessparty.org\/\">Work Less Party<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tom has been a passionate advocate for the 35 hour work week for as long as I have known him, seven years or more.  He has done some really interesting labour relations research in his day too.  With the launch of this political party, it&#8217;s clear that he has put his money where his mouth is.  The party is no joke&#8230;Tom&#8217;s work has largely been about the social, economic and cultural benefits of a 35 hour work week, and if that seems too narrow a peg to hang a platform on, well, it beats tax cuts as the hub of a constellation of solutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My old friend and neighbour Tom Walker has surfaced as a candidate for a new political party here in BC: the Work Less Party. Tom has been a passionate advocate for the 35 hour work week for as long as I have known him, seven years or more. He has done some really interesting labour relations research in his day too. With the launch of this political party, it&#8217;s clear that he has put his money where his mouth is. The party is no joke&#8230;Tom&#8217;s work has largely been about the social, economic and cultural benefits of a 35 hour &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-9M","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}