{"id":20705,"date":"2010-07-10T23:07:59","date_gmt":"2010-07-10T23:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/keith_chancley_a_new_orleans_oyster_shucker_weathering_the_storms\/"},"modified":"2010-07-10T23:07:59","modified_gmt":"2010-07-10T23:07:59","slug":"keith_chancley_a_new_orleans_oyster_shucker_weathering_the_storms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=20705","title":{"rendered":"Keith Chancley, a New Orleans Oyster Shucker Weathering the Storms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Rotonti, Felix\u2019s owner, would not let the bar go dry. He bought oysters from Florida and Texas to supplement the meager harvest from Louisiana.<\/p>\n<p>Still, a shucker can only do so much in the face of an environmental disaster of mammoth proportions.<\/p>\n<p>Close to closing time, Mr. [Keith] Chancley, who on a good day last year might have made $200 in tips, took a measly $4 out of the tip bucket after the total was split with the rookie shucker (three years on the job) and the novice shucker (a dishwasher in training).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got to take the good with the bad,\u201d\u009d said Mr. Chancley, a 35-year veteran. \u201cI tell the other shuckers around town \u201d\u201d we\u2019re a close group \u201d\u201d just weather the storm. Take it as a time to heal your cramped hands and your soul.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/07\/08\/us\/08voice.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Rotonti, Felix\u2019s owner, would not let the bar go dry. He bought oysters from Florida and Texas to supplement the meager harvest from Louisiana. Still, a shucker can only do so much in the face of an environmental disaster<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=20705\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,410,589,149,140,597],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-the-2010-gulf-of-mexico-oil-spill","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-energy-natural-resources","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}