{"id":2696,"date":"2008-02-27T07:09:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T15:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=2696"},"modified":"2008-02-27T07:09:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-27T15:09:00","slug":"signs-of-the-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=2696","title":{"rendered":"Signs of the Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Michael Jackson\u2019s ranch, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neverland_Ranch\" target=\"_blank\">Neverland<\/a>, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/entertainmentNews\/idUSN2638244820080226\" target=\"_blank\">facing a foreclosure sale<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/thelede.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/02\/27\/auction-set-for-michael-jacksons-neverland\/index.html?hp\" target=\"_blank\">NY Times<\/a>) on March 19<sup>th<\/sup>, unless the singer comes up with the outstanding balance, around $24.5 million. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/projects\/pdf\/AR-BC320_20080226_114706.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">PDF Auction Notice<\/a>)\n<li>Apple\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/itunes\/\" target=\"_blank\">iTunes<\/a> has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/sfgate\/detail?blogid=19&#038;entry_id=24518\" target=\"_blank\">surpassed Best Buy and Target<\/a> to become the #2 Worlds Music Retailer, just behind Wal-Mart. People are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-music27feb27,0,4432240.story\" target=\"_blank\">no longer buying CDs<\/a> (but I still do), and names like Sam Goody, Tower, Licorice Pizza, and the Warehouse are mostly memories.\n<li>Indy Bookstores aren\u2019t doing well either. One of the most famous, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duttonsbrentwood.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Duttons in Brentwood<\/a>, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/features\/books\/la-me-duttons26feb26,0,5496001.story\" target=\"_blank\">closing on April 30<\/a>. Debt, uncertainty, and a declining business did them in.\n<li>Justin Timberlake is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/news\/music\/la-et-ap-madonna-timberlake26feb26,0,6653871.story\" target=\"_blank\">inducting Madonna into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame<\/a>. At least it\u2019s not Brittney.<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Jackson\u2019s ranch, Neverland, is facing a foreclosure sale (NY Times) on March 19th, unless the singer comes up with the outstanding balance, around $24.5 million. (PDF Auction Notice) Apple\u2019s iTunes has surpassed Best Buy and Target to become the #2 Worlds Music Retailer, just behind Wal-Mart. People are no longer buying CDs (but I <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=2696\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-chum","category-lj-xfer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696","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=2696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}