{"id":384,"date":"2004-09-15T11:12:29","date_gmt":"2004-09-15T16:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=384"},"modified":"2005-01-14T00:48:20","modified_gmt":"2005-01-14T05:48:20","slug":"support_the_poo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/15\/support_the_poo\/","title":{"rendered":"Support the Poor, Smoke a Beedi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Financial woes of the Tamil Nadu tobacco workers\" href=\"http:\/\/athens-olympics-2004.newkerala.com\/?action=fullnews&#038;id=31308\">Financial woes of the Tamil Nadu tobacco workers<\/a> &#8211;<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>Mukkudal (Tamil Nadu), Sept 15 : The beedi workers in Tamil Nadu are in a pathetic condition these days. These under-paid workers are facing tough time eevn as they have to borrow loans to meet their daily expenditure. \n\nThe workers are paid a meagre 50.25 rupees per 1000 beedis. They seek loans from their pension fund to meet their urgent monetary needs, but often they are denied the right&#8230; <\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Am I the only one who&#8217;s surprised that they&#8217;ve got a pension fund to draw upon?  Wild stuff&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Financial woes of the Tamil Nadu tobacco workers &#8211; Mukkudal (Tamil Nadu), Sept 15 : The beedi workers in Tamil Nadu are in a pathetic condition these days. These under-paid workers are facing tough time eevn as they have to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/15\/support_the_poo\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}