{"id":1038,"date":"2007-02-16T11:40:27","date_gmt":"2007-02-16T16:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2007\/02\/16\/la-quinta-inn-colonias\/"},"modified":"2007-02-16T11:40:27","modified_gmt":"2007-02-16T16:40:27","slug":"la-quinta-inn-colonias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2007\/02\/16\/la-quinta-inn-colonias\/","title":{"rendered":"la quinta inn, colonias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We stayed in a hotel last night, under really random circumstances.\u00c2\u00a0 A friend of friends from DC was at the show.\u00c2\u00a0 She had recently moved to Las Creces to work as a union organizer doing community and university outreach in an attempt to improve wages and working conditions for workers at the state university in New Mexico.\u00c2\u00a0 The union had put her up in a local hotel and she shared it with us.\u00c2\u00a0 She was telling us a little about the work that she did and how she had encountered something called colonias, which are exploitative real estate sold largely to immigrants that are totally without hookups to electrical, water, and sewer grids.\u00c2\u00a0 The first thing I found was this FAQ by the Texas state government that describes more about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sos.state.tx.us\/border\/colonias\/faqs.shtml\">Colonias<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We stayed in a hotel last night, under really random circumstances.\u00c2\u00a0 A friend of friends from DC was at the show.\u00c2\u00a0 She had recently moved to Las Creces to work as a union organizer doing community and university outreach in an attempt to improve wages and working conditions for workers at the state university in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/2007\/02\/16\/la-quinta-inn-colonias\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">la quinta inn, colonias<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[209,38,81,207,208,212],"class_list":["post-1038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-colonias","tag-defianceohio","tag-immigration","tag-newmexico","tag-southwest","tag-tour","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wnIz-gK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.terrorware.com\/geoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}