{"id":2812,"date":"2012-02-05T02:35:23","date_gmt":"2012-02-05T10:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chanfles.com\/blog\/?p=2812"},"modified":"2012-02-05T03:05:44","modified_gmt":"2012-02-05T11:05:44","slug":"food-stamp-stash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chanfles.com\/blog\/?p=2812","title":{"rendered":"Food Stamp Stash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chanfles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/food_stamps.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2813\" title=\"food_stamps\" src=\"https:\/\/chanfles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/food_stamps.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chanfles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/food_stamps.jpg 600w, https:\/\/chanfles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/food_stamps-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unlike many poor people, including my mother, I am not ashamed of having been a participant in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fns.usda.gov\/snap\/\">Food Stamp program<\/a>. Back in my <a href=\"http:\/\/ladpss.org\/dpss\/general_relief\/default.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">GR<\/a> days this was actually a luxury, allowing me to purchase pricier food items like fresh fruits and vegetables that I would never have paid for with my own limited supply of cash. The diet of the poor is understandable, it&#8217;s all about making\u00a0 a dollar last longer, and to make you feel &#8220;full&#8221; at the most affordable price. Thus the reason for choosing to subsist on crap but cheap processed foods like Top Ramen and Kraft Mac and Cheese &#8211; fats and carbs &#8211; its about abating hunger, not about eating well. Food Stamps allowed me to venture onto crazy things like tofu, brown rice, and broccoli. Even after I stopped using food stamps I held on to my lil&#8217; stash of $1 stamps just in case. Now its all about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebtproject.ca.gov\/faq.aspx\">EBT cards<\/a>, which are accepted in all sort of fast food restaurants and very few &#8220;foodie&#8221; places that supposedly care about our eating habits. (But who cares? This &#8220;foodie&#8221; bullshit is going to fade into obscurity quickly once we all get back to a basic grounding of eating simple food.)<\/p>\n<p>I found my safety stash while clearing out a bunch of papers. I assume that at some point in my future I will be back at the food stamp line filling out the necessary paperwork.<\/p>\n<p>Fuck yeah, I&#8217;m down with Food Stamps.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike many poor people, including my mother, I am not ashamed of having been a participant in the Food Stamp program. Back in my GR days this was actually a luxury, allowing me to purchase pricier food items like fresh &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chanfles.com\/blog\/?p=2812\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"h5ap_radio_sources":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,10,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eastside","category-la-comida","category-la-politica-es-un-desmadre","category-chicano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chanfles.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chanfles.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chanfles.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chanfles.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chanfles.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2812"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/chanfles.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2824,"href":"https:\/\/chanfles.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2812\/revisions\/2824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chanfles.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chanfles.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chanfles.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}