{"id":123475,"date":"2019-12-16T02:39:56","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T01:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/12\/16\/mcdonalds-fires-restaurant-owner-over-couples-racist-comments-questioning-artists-aboriginality\/"},"modified":"2019-12-16T02:39:56","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T01:39:56","slug":"mcdonalds-fires-restaurant-owner-over-couples-racist-comments-questioning-artists-aboriginality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=123475","title":{"rendered":"McDonald\u2019s fires restaurant owner over couple&#039;s racist comments questioning artist&#039;s Aboriginality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Comments in video were \u2018unacceptable\u2019 and \u2018do not reflect the beliefs of the company\u2019, the fast-food chain saidMcDonald\u2019s has fired the owner of two of its restaurants in Victoria after he and a companion were filmed making racist comments questioning an artist\u2019s Aboriginality. Robert Vigors, who owned McDonald\u2019s in Mildura and Irymple, was filmed in a confrontation at a family home in Mildura that was posted on Twitter by a family member. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2019\/dec\/15\/mcdonalds-fires-owner-of-two-victorian-restaurants-after-video-of-alleged-racialised-rant-goes-viral\" target=\"_blank\">McDonald\u2019s fires restaurant owner over couple&#039;s racist comments questioning artist&#039;s Aboriginality<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comments in video were \u2018unacceptable\u2019 and \u2018do not reflect the beliefs of the company\u2019, the fast-food chain saidMcDonald\u2019s has fired the owner of two of its restaurants in Victoria after he and a companion were filmed making racist comments questioning an artist\u2019s Aboriginality. Robert Vigors, who owned McDonald\u2019s in Mildura [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}