{"id":1707,"date":"2008-05-01T13:13:04","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T17:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/2008\/05\/01\/michigan-retailer-shot-could-use-some-help\/"},"modified":"2009-01-01T23:25:57","modified_gmt":"2009-01-02T03:25:57","slug":"michigan-retailer-shot-could-use-some-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=1707","title":{"rendered":"Michigan Retailer Shot, Could Use Some Help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ifanboy.com\/content\/articles\/Fund_Raising_to_Help_David_Pirkola__Comics_Retailer\"><strong>A retailer in Michigan was robbed and then shot in his store last week.<\/strong><\/a> He&#8217;s in the hospital right now and racking up what I can only imagine are terrifyingly large medical bills because the U.S. Healthcare system is pretty frightening, and like many small business owners he doesn&#8217;t have insurance. If you could consider doing as I and many other folks have, and kicking a few bucks his way to help offset some of his costs, that&#8217;d be a pretty great thing to do, I think.<\/p>\n<p>And to other retailers or small business-people operating without insurance (or the benefit of living somewhere with good government-sponsored health care), strongly consider your group insurance options through trade organizations. Many comics retailers qualify under booksellers-association guidelines to join those groups and get a decent discounted plan, and there&#8217;s always comics retailer organization COMICSPRO, which I believe offers access to a discounted group health insurance plan as well (for U.S. Retailers). Check them out at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.comicspro.org\/\"><strong>http:\/\/www.comicspro.org\/<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Christopher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A retailer in Michigan was robbed and then shot in his store last week. He&#8217;s in the hospital right now and racking up what I can only imagine are terrifyingly large medical bills because the U.S. Healthcare system is pretty frightening, and like many small business owners he doesn&#8217;t have insurance. If you could consider &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/comics212.net\/?p=1707\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Michigan Retailer Shot, Could Use Some Help&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2166,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707\/revisions\/2166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comics212.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}