{"id":882,"date":"2010-05-24T11:40:59","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T17:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laowaiteacher.wordpress.com\/?p=143"},"modified":"2010-05-24T11:40:59","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T17:40:59","slug":"sidewalk-seamstress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/2010\/05\/24\/sidewalk-seamstress\/","title":{"rendered":"Sidewalk Seamstress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/laowaiteacher.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/2006-september-070.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-144\" title=\"2006 September 070\" src=\"http:\/\/laowaiteacher.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/2006-september-070.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"498\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a scene from just outside of the gates of the main campus of C.I.T. \u00a0Students don&#8217;t exactly come to university with deep pockets. \u00a0Many students come from poor homes and the extra money just isn&#8217;t there. \u00a0So services such as this seamstress, allow students to better manage their meagre allowances. \u00a0In a society that demands that people become self-sufficient, there is no expectation that parents or society &#8220;owes&#8221; either students or workers anything. \u00a0Sacrifices need to be made; choices need to be made.<\/p>\n<p>Since society has these expectation, society makes allowances for the expectations to be met. \u00a0Thus, people such as this seamstress are allowed to set up shop on the sidewalk allowing business costs to be kept to a minimum. \u00a0Here in North America, there are countless numbers of regulations for the operation of private enterprises such as this one. \u00a0More often than not, our policies and regulations create roadblocks which kill initiative and have the welfare roles swell.<\/p>\n<p>Something to think about. \u00a0That said, life isn&#8217;t easy for those on the bottom of the economic ladder anywhere in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a scene from just outside of the gates of the main campus of C.I.T. \u00a0Students don&#8217;t exactly come to university with deep pockets. \u00a0Many students come from poor homes and the extra money just isn&#8217;t there. \u00a0So services &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/2010\/05\/24\/sidewalk-seamstress\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23,33,38,50,70,75,100,103,123,178,195,217,234,238],"class_list":["post-882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-c-i-t","tag-china","tag-chinese","tag-communication","tag-economy","tag-esl-blog","tag-foreign-teacher","tag-ft","tag-jiangsu","tag-poverty","tag-seamstress","tag-teaching-esl","tag-welfare","tag-xinbei"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglongpre.ca\/pilgrim\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}