{"id":713210,"date":"2010-04-09T18:54:29","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T22:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2011570711_tesororefineryexplosion.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2026-10-04T12:11:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T16:11:15","slug":"tesoro-refinery-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/713210","title":{"rendered":"Tesoro refinery explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Priorities aflame when dollars dig in<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is a response to the editorial \u201cOld scrutiny, new fears\u201d [Opinion, April 6].<\/p>\n<p>It is odd how we protected Wall Street when it was down and out, but we cannot seem to protect the working class from being injured or killed when they are performing a dangerous job.<\/p>\n<p>The miners in West Virginia and the refinery workers in Anacortes are lost based on a sad and twisted set of priorities. Money rules.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Jocelyn Hudson, Shoreline<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Priorities aflame when dollars dig in This is a response to the editorial \u201cOld scrutiny, new fears\u201d [Opinion, April 6]. It is odd how we protected Wall Street when it was down and out, but we cannot seem to protect the working class from being injured or killed when they are performing a dangerous job. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1735,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-713210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Zxo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1735"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":814892,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713210\/revisions\/814892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}