{"id":292,"date":"2005-09-21T08:12:11","date_gmt":"2005-09-21T13:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/?p=292"},"modified":"2005-11-12T14:08:25","modified_gmt":"2005-11-12T21:08:25","slug":"hawkers-in-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2005\/hawkers-in-mexico.html","title":{"rendered":"Hawkers in Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After reading Tim&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/missionsafari.typepad.com\/mission_safari\/2005\/06\/whats_for_sale.html\">list of what he saw for sale<\/a> on the road in the middle of a traffic jam in Nairobi, Kenya, I decided to keep my eyes open in Mexico. &nbsp;Here are <b>top 12 things<\/b> that we saw on our most recent trip, that were being sold to people at stoplights and <\/p>\n<table width=\"125\" align=\"right\">\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/child-vendor.jpg\" width=\"125\" height=\"215\" hspace=\"3\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Child vendor\"\/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>intersections:<\/p>\n<li>Nuts<\/li>\n<li>Phone cards<\/li>\n<li>Gloves<\/li>\n<li>Hand towels<\/li>\n<li>Lollipops<\/li>\n<li>Car mats<\/li>\n<li>Chocolates<\/li>\n<li>Window shades<\/li>\n<li>Marshmallows<\/li>\n<li>Umbrellas<\/li>\n<li>Cigarettes<\/li>\n<li>Batman costumes<\/li>\n<p>Mexicans show amazing ingenuity when it comes to creating jobs out of thin air. &nbsp;The evidence is the hundreds and thousands of vendors you see, men women and children. &nbsp;The problem is that these people often aren&#8217;t making enough, and they have no benefits, no job security, and little hope of getting out of the rut. &nbsp;Please pray for the people of Mexico.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reading Tim&#8217;s list of what he saw for sale on the road in the middle of a traffic jam in Nairobi, Kenya, I decided to keep my eyes open in Mexico. &nbsp;Here are top 12 things that we saw on our most recent trip, that were being sold to people at stoplights and intersections: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mexico","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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