{"id":7374,"date":"2017-07-16T16:29:03","date_gmt":"2017-07-16T22:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=7374"},"modified":"2017-07-16T16:42:02","modified_gmt":"2017-07-16T22:42:02","slug":"im-just-a-poor-white-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=7374","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I&#8217;m Just a Poor White Girl&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How are you? <\/p>\n<p>I asked as I placed my grocery purchases on the store&#8217;s conveyor belt. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2017\/07\/DSC07126b.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2017\/07\/DSC06982b.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2017\/07\/DSC06761b.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tired.  <\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t purchased an energy drink today.  I&#8217;m <em>just a poor white girl<\/em> trying to save some money&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2017\/07\/DSC06987b.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2017\/07\/DSC06983b.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2017\/07\/DSC06979b.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2017\/07\/DSC06973b.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2017\/07\/DSC06975b.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2017\/07\/DSC06984b.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2017\/07\/DSC06989b.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2017\/07\/DSC06994b.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>A small latte, please.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Are you staying around for tomorrow&#8217;s festivities (4th of July)?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re driving further south, later today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t go <em>too far <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=7371\">south<\/a><\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Not to worry, just to <a href=\"https:\/\/duckduckgo.com\/?q=Mendocino%2C+CA&#038;t=hq&#038;ia=maps\">Mendocino<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2017\/07\/DSC06996b.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2017\/07\/DSC07018b.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2017\/07\/DSC07027b.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2017\/07\/DSC06736b.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2017\/07\/DSC06759b.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2017\/07\/IMG_6997b.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Weeks later, a minister wondered, while discussing the <a href=\"https:\/\/duckduckgo.com\/?q=%22Parable+of+the+sower%22&#038;t=hq&#038;ia=web\">parable of the sower<\/a>, how many Americans know how fruits and vegetables grow&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How are you? I asked as I placed my grocery purchases on the store&#8217;s conveyor belt. &#8220;Tired. I haven&#8217;t purchased an energy drink today. I&#8217;m just a poor white girl trying to save some money&#8221;. A small latte, please. &#8220;Are you staying around for tomorrow&#8217;s festivities (4th of July)?&#8221; No. We&#8217;re driving further south, later [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7374"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7374"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7381,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7374\/revisions\/7381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}