{"id":8811,"date":"2012-08-16T08:40:16","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T13:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=8811"},"modified":"2018-05-01T09:34:09","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T14:34:09","slug":"oklahoma-wheaties-what-they-are-and-why-theyre-hard-to-hire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/08\/16\/oklahoma-wheaties-what-they-are-and-why-theyre-hard-to-hire\/","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma &#8216;Wheaties&#8217;: What They Are and Why They&#8217;re Hard to Hire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8815\"  class=\"wp-caption module image center\" style=\"max-width: 620px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Caption\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/08\/wheat-thresher.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8815\" title=\"Wheat Thresher\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/08\/wheat-thresher.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/08\/wheat-thresher.jpg 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/08\/wheat-thresher-500x282.jpg 500w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/08\/wheat-thresher-150x85.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/08\/wheat-thresher-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Ben Allen \/ KOSU Radio<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nomadic workers from states like Kansas migrate to Oklahoma to help with the wheat harvest.<\/p>\n<\/div><p>Dan Skinner is a business owner, but he&#8217;s a lot like a college football recruiter. He spends three months of every year on the phone, trying to build a team that&#8217;s ready to toil and travel tirelessly.<\/p><p>Finding good workers is tough, and Oklahoma needs a lot of summer help for its wheat harvest. These migratory, temporary workers are called &#8220;wheaties,&#8221; and Americans don&#8217;t want the work, Skinner says. But hiring foreign workers comes with piles of paperwork and reams of red tape.<\/p><p><em>Ben Allen is a reporter for KOSU, a StateImpact partner and collaborator. This is part of a series on summer jobs in Oklahoma.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Skinner is a business owner, but he&#8217;s a lot like a college football recruiter. He spends three months of every year on the phone, trying to build a team that&#8217;s ready to toil and travel tirelessly.Finding good workers is tough, and Oklahoma needs a lot of summer help for its wheat harvest. These migratory, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":8815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[301,300],"tags":[313,422,421],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8811"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8811"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8828,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8811\/revisions\/8828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}