{"id":12444,"date":"2009-04-24T15:40:13","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T15:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/california_ponders_changes_in_constitution\/"},"modified":"2009-04-24T15:40:13","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T15:40:13","slug":"california_ponders_changes_in_constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12444","title":{"rendered":"California ponders changes in constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fed up with the budget crises and partisan battles that have paralyzed California for years, some influential voices believe it&#8217;s time to tear open the state constitution and start anew.<\/p>\n<p>Once dismissed as a hokey gimmick, support for a proposed constitutional convention has been building in the nation&#8217;s most populous state. Even Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Republican, has indicated he would back an effort to retool the document to make state government function more smoothly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/article.php?id=D97OGCI80&#038;show_article=1\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fed up with the budget crises and partisan battles that have paralyzed California for years, some influential voices believe it&#8217;s time to tear open the state constitution and start anew. Once dismissed as a hokey gimmick, support for a proposed<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12444\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,151,619],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-politics-in-general","category-state-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}