{"id":2359,"date":"2009-07-08T21:23:01","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T21:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2359"},"modified":"2009-07-08T21:23:01","modified_gmt":"2009-07-08T21:23:01","slug":"things_could_be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2359","title":{"rendered":"Things Could Be Worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About ten years ago, I contemplated a move to California. I had a possible job lead and I liked the idea of never experiencing subzero windchills ever again. But now that California has revealed itself to be a political and economic basket case, I&#8217;m kind of glad I stayed away. The state&#8217;s budget woes are hitting people with disabilities hard, prompting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcra.com\/politics\/19982433\/detail.html\">protests and sit-ins<\/a>. I&#8217;m no fan of my governor, but at least he&#8217;s not suggesting that my nurses and I get fingerprinted as a fraud mitigation measure. <\/p>\n<p>California doesn&#8217;t have a fraud problem. It has a structural deficit problem. Minnesota is in a similar boat and is only one more anti-tax governor away from having to issue its own I.O.U.s.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Scott for the tip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About ten years ago, I contemplated a move to California. I had a possible job lead and I liked the idea of never experiencing subzero windchills ever again. But now that California has revealed itself to be a political and economic basket case, I&#8217;m kind of glad I stayed away. The state&#8217;s budget woes are <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2359' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-C3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}