{"id":254,"date":"2008-01-20T03:14:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-20T03:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/new-blog\/?p=254"},"modified":"2014-03-11T15:10:47","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T20:10:47","slug":"laziness-and-the-p-w-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/laziness-and-the-p-w-a.html","title":{"rendered":"Laziness and the P.W.A."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/images\/thumb\/5\/58\/PWA-workers.jpg\/800px-PWA-workers.jpg\"><img style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 650px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/images\/thumb\/5\/58\/PWA-workers.jpg\/800px-PWA-workers.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>In 1933, the US government starting putting a large amount of money into public works, helping the economy, building communities, and keeping people working.  The PWA, or Public Works Administration, did a lot of high-profile work, but the PWA helped communities and projects of all sizes.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/-\/Image:PWA-workers.jpg\">This picture was captioned &#8220;P.W.A. Workers&#8221;<\/a> &#8212; however, they look hardly like a PWA project.  The owner of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/-\/Wisconsin_Farm_Life%2C_1930s\">photo album<\/a> had a sense of humor; the PWA (and its relative, the WPA) had a somewhat undeserved reputation for laziness. Ms. Photographer, it seems, saw a woman in the field &#8212; and the guys not working &#8212; as representative of the PWA, whether or not their paychecks came from the New Deal or not.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">see also:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/archive\/elro\/glossary\/pwa.htm\">the pwa<\/a> *<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uh.edu\/engines\/epi823.htm\">pwa thoughts <\/a>* *<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/history\/history\/online_books\/unrau-williss\/adhi3d.htm\">pwa and nat&#8217;l parks<\/a> *  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.co.broward.fl.us\/library\/bienes\/lii10204.htm\">the wpa<\/a> * <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpamurals.com\/\">wpa murals<\/a> * <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libs.uga.edu\/hargrett\/selections\/wpa\/index.html\">wpa in georgia<\/a> *  <a href=\"http:\/\/memory.loc.gov\/ammem\/wpaposters\/wpahome.html\">wpa posters<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/1164514753160272371-2394104060435904866?l=www.infomercantile.com\/blog\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1933, the US government starting putting a large amount of money into public works, helping the economy, building communities, and keeping people working. The PWA, or Public Works Administration, did a lot of high-profile work, but the PWA helped communities and projects of all sizes. This picture was captioned &#8220;P.W.A. Workers&#8221; &#8212; however, they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[9,399,158,53,514,516,102,515],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1275,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions\/1275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}