[While the tea cools…]<\/p>\n
Today’s Los Angeles Times reminds us that today is the anniversary<\/a> of the shooting of Robert F. Kennedy in the pantry of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles in 1968. I remember that shooting. I have a distinct memory of watching the primary results with my mother (what I was doing up that late, I don’t recall) on an old Zenith black and white set in the upstairs den at our home in Playa Del Rey. That was back in the days when the California primary meant something.<\/p>\n And speaking of June Primaries and California… over the weekend, I got lots of phone calls: Al Gore, Jerry Brown, and others. How they got my numbers, I don’t know, but they didn’t talk back when I spoke to them. Seriously, I’ve gotten more political phone calls (recorded ones) this election than ever before. Here’s a word of advice to any candidate reading this: if you make a recorded call to my house, I will specifically go out of my way to vote for your opponent. I do the same thing for candidates that have annoying websites (i.e., that start playing loud music you can’t turn off). Actually, I’ve already voted: I filled out my absentee ballot on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [While the tea cools…] Today’s Los Angeles Times reminds us that today is the anniversary of the shooting of Robert F. Kennedy in the pantry of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles in 1968. I remember that shooting. I have a distinct memory of watching the primary results with my mother (what I was doing Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-lj-xfer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}