{"id":16200,"date":"2017-11-02T14:40:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T18:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/?p=16200"},"modified":"2022-08-01T07:42:56","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T11:42:56","slug":"open-letter-to-papa-john","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2017\/11\/open-letter-to-papa-john\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Letter to Papa John"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear &#8220;Papa&#8221; John Schnatter:<\/p>\n<p>I read <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/papa-john-loses-dough-pizza-180000201.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">you were having some trouble selling pizza<\/a> this football season, losing some money. You know another tough way to make money?\u00a0 Being a black quarterback who thirty-one white owners (and one Pakistani-American owner) <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/good-week-kaepernick-collusion-case-181231944.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">refuse to hire<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I have an idea.\u00a0 You know what would make your pizzas taste better?\u00a0 Kneeling on them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/papajohn2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-16286 size-full\" style=\"margin-bottom: 24px;\" src=\"http:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/papajohn2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"674\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/papajohn2.jpg 900w, https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/papajohn2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-content\/uploads\/papajohn2-640x479.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a>On second thought, kneeling may not help.\u00a0 Your pizza, that is.\u00a0 But I invite you to try it. Kneeling, that is.<\/p>\n<p>Regards, Colin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear &#8220;Papa&#8221; John Schnatter: I read you were having some trouble selling pizza this football season, losing some money. You know another tough way to make money?\u00a0 Being a black quarterback who thirty-one white owners (and one Pakistani-American owner) refuse &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/2017\/11\/open-letter-to-papa-john\/\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16200"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28246,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16200\/revisions\/28246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chcollins.com\/100Billion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}