{"id":880,"date":"2005-06-24T21:08:05","date_gmt":"2005-06-24T21:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=880"},"modified":"2005-06-24T21:08:05","modified_gmt":"2005-06-24T21:08:05","slug":"the_clock_is_ti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=880","title":{"rendered":"The Clock Is Ticking"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m still waiting to see if I’ll be forced to go on an unplanned vacation next week. The Minnesota Legislature still has been unable to reach agreement on a budget<\/a> and next Thursday looms as the deadline. If no budget is passed by June 30, my department will shut down except for a few essential functions. I remain optimistic that it won’t come to that. Even if it does, I have some vacation time upon which I can draw, but I was hoping to save that for Europe. Politically, I can’t see how a shutdown would be anything but a disaster for both parties. Let’s hope everyone involved can find some common ground. There will be time enough for posturing afterwards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m still waiting to see if I’ll be forced to go on an unplanned vacation next week. The Minnesota Legislature still has been unable to reach agreement on a budget and next Thursday looms as the deadline. If no budget is passed by June 30, my department will shut down except for a few essential […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-880","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-ec","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880","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=880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}