{"id":7096,"date":"2010-12-12T23:00:34","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T06:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/?p=7096"},"modified":"2010-12-12T23:00:34","modified_gmt":"2010-12-13T06:00:34","slug":"necessary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/12\/necessary\/","title":{"rendered":"Necessary&#8230;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/labor.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7097\" title=\"labor\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/labor.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/labor.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/labor-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I took this photograph outside the paper factory we toured near the city of Jaipur, in Rajasthan, India.\u00c2\u00a0 Child labor, though certainly outlawed in the world&#8217;s largest democracy, is still a reality &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tni.org\/article\/no-model-development-neoliberal-games-india\">as<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tni.org\/article\/equal-and-opposite-effect\">has been<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heraldsun.com.au\/news\/delhis-commonwealth-games-slave-labour-shame\/story-e6frf7jo-1225826064514\">pointed<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asiaone.com\/News\/Latest+News\/Asia\/Story\/A1Story20100924-238963.html\">out in the<\/a> post-Commonwealth Games <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2010\/WORLD\/asiapcf\/09\/23\/commonwealth.games.child.labor\/index.html\">scandals<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I was perplexed by this sign.\u00c2\u00a0 Is it a reminder for others not to put children to work in factories?\u00c2\u00a0 Is it a symbol of a reformed factory, one that used to use children but has now fixed its ways?\u00c2\u00a0 Is it a legal announcement, required for this type of business?<\/p>\n<p>And for the record: in our small sample of places we entered unannounced, there were certainly no children of any sort working or otherwise on the premises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took this photograph outside the paper factory we toured near the city of Jaipur, in Rajasthan, India.\u00c2\u00a0 Child labor, though certainly outlawed in the world&#8217;s largest democracy, is still a reality &#8212; as has been pointed out in the post-Commonwealth Games scandals. Still, I was perplexed by this sign.\u00c2\u00a0 Is it a reminder for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23,16],"tags":[210],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7096"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7098,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7096\/revisions\/7098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}