{"id":132615,"date":"2026-05-02T03:05:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T03:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=132615"},"modified":"2026-05-02T03:05:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T03:05:49","slug":"favorite-tweets-37139","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=132615","title":{"rendered":"Favorite tweets"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A minimum wage of \u00a315 would end my coffee shop, it would have to close, as would many other businesses.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll explain for the economically illiterate.<\/p>\n<p>Staff costs are currently half our costs, a \u00a315 minimum wage is actually more than \u00a315 an hour for the company, because you have https:\/\/t.co\/mS0zkVHUhs<\/p>\n<p>  &mdash; Peter McCormack \ud83c\udff4\u200d\u2620\ufe0f\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde7\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddea (@PeterMcCormack)<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PeterMcCormack\/status\/2050199837652787358\">May 1, 2026<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\nfrom http:\/\/twitter.com\/PeterMcCormack<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"https:\/\/ifttt.com\/?ref=da&#038;site=wordpress\">IFTTT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A minimum wage of \u00a315 would end my coffee shop, it would have to close, as would many other businesses. I\u2019ll explain for the economically illiterate. Staff costs are currently half our costs, a \u00a315 minimum wage is actually more than \u00a315 an hour for the company, because you have https:\/\/t.co\/mS0zkVHUhs &mdash; Peter McCormack \ud83c\udff4\u200d\u2620\ufe0f\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde7\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddea &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=132615\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Favorite tweets<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[792],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-132615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blih","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132616,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132615\/revisions\/132616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132615"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=132615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}