{"id":1567,"date":"2008-10-22T09:38:15","date_gmt":"2008-10-22T13:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1567"},"modified":"2008-10-22T09:38:15","modified_gmt":"2008-10-22T13:38:15","slug":"the-price-of-decency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/10\/22\/the-price-of-decency\/","title":{"rendered":"The Price of Decency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wvgazette.com\/News\/200810210727\">Chaylee Coal deserves some real credit for standing up for decency<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Chaylee Cole, a student at Fairmont State University, lost her part-time job in Weston last Friday after refusing to make telephone calls attacking Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<p>McCain-Palin 2008 and the Republican National Committee were paying for the calls, according to a &#8220;work paper&#8221; handed to Cole and her co-workers at the Weston offices of 1.2.1 Direct Response, a company based in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was working at the call center,&#8221; Cole said. &#8220;We got a campaign ad talking about how Obama had been part of terrorist attacks on the Capitol, the Pentagon and a judge&#8217;s home and had ties with Bill Ayers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Last Thursday, I told them I did not want to read it,&#8221; Cole said. &#8220;They said, &#8216;Either you read it or you go home.&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So she went home.\u00c2\u00a0 Good for her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chaylee Coal deserves some real credit for standing up for decency: Chaylee Cole, a student at Fairmont State University, lost her part-time job in Weston last Friday after refusing to make telephone calls attacking Barack Obama. McCain-Palin 2008 and the Republican National Committee were paying for the calls, according to a &#8220;work paper&#8221; handed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1568,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567\/revisions\/1568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}