{"id":40380,"date":"2018-01-25T06:59:32","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T06:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=40380"},"modified":"2018-01-25T06:59:32","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T06:59:32","slug":"have-we-got-a-right-to-go-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2018\/01\/25\/have-we-got-a-right-to-go-to-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Have we got a right to go to work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know it\u2019s not trendy, cool or whatever to say you like a Dire Straits song, but I have said before, and may well say again that this is a favourite of mine:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Telegraph Road - Dire Straits\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/22096238?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Mark Knopfler wrote stories. This one includes these lines:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I used to like to go to work but they shut it down<br \/>\nI've got a right to go to work but there's no work here to be found<br \/>\nYes, and they say we're gonna have to pay what's owed<br \/>\nWe're gonna have to reap from some seed that's been sowed<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, do we have that right?<\/p>\n<p>Should we have that right?<\/p>\n<p>And what must be paid for it?<\/p>\n<p>The context is the discussion of UBI and the Jobs Guarantee in the comments section yesterday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know it\u2019s not trendy, cool or whatever to say you like a Dire Straits song, but I have said before, and may well say<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2018\/01\/25\/have-we-got-a-right-to-go-to-work\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}