{"id":9761,"date":"2008-11-24T03:45:08","date_gmt":"2008-11-24T03:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/an_la_times_editorial_california_budget_dead_ends_and_delays\/"},"modified":"2008-11-24T03:45:08","modified_gmt":"2008-11-24T03:45:08","slug":"an_la_times_editorial_california_budget_dead_ends_and_delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=9761","title":{"rendered":"An LA Times Editorial: California Budget dead ends and delays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, really, how bad could it be? How seriously should we take the state&#8217;s latest budget crisis if a clutch of lawmakers, including the chairwoman of the Senate Budget Committee, is spending the emergency session in India?&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>But far from India, Georgia and wherever else elected officials are spending the waning days of the special session, back in Sacramento, in the governor&#8217;s Department of Finance, at the Legislative Analyst&#8217;s Office, among those who watch unemployment figures and cash flow, there is a palpable anxiety. In some offices, it borders on panic. <b>Past meltdowns have been disguised by a healthy economy. This time it is different.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/opinion\/editorials\/la-ed-budget23-2008nov23,0,171459.story\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, really, how bad could it be? How seriously should we take the state&#8217;s latest budget crisis if a clutch of lawmakers, including the chairwoman of the Senate Budget Committee, is spending the emergency session in India?&#8230;. But far from<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=9761\">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":[40,149,151,596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-politics-in-general","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9761","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=9761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}