{"id":3170,"date":"2008-12-09T22:17:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T06:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=3170"},"modified":"2008-12-09T22:17:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T06:17:00","slug":"buddy-can-you-spare-some-chum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=3170","title":{"rendered":"Buddy, Can You Spare Some Chum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We all know that times are tough. Here are a few stories indicating some of the ways:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In Prague, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/12\/09\/world\/europe\/09czechsex.html?partner=permalink&#038;exprod=permalink\" target=\"_blank\">demand for the &#8220;world&#8217;s oldest profession&#8221; has gone down<\/a>. The brothels are seeing a significant drop in business. Insert your own punch line here.\n<li>On Broadway, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/12\/10\/theater\/10ads.html?partner=permalink&#038;exprod=permalink\" target=\"_blank\">musicals are changing their marketing<\/a> to emphasize their value and their good feelings. They are offering more discounts, even before their premieres.\n<li>In California, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-games10-2008dec10,0,5143813.story\" target=\"_blank\">Electronic Arts is missing its mid-year target<\/a>, and as a result, it will find ways to cut costs, including canceling some game projects and making deeper job cuts than the 6% workforce reduction it had announced in October.\n<li>In Beautiful Downtown <del>Burbank<\/del> Universal City, NBC is giving up scripted drama and other shows in the last hour of primetime to <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/showtracker\/2008\/12\/jay-leno-hits-t.html\" target=\"_blank\">replace it with Jay Leno five days a week<\/a>, at significant cost savings. Will the other full networks follow suit, or just give up because they don&#8217;t have the evening franchise? Could ABC do the same thing with Nightline?\n<li>In St. Louis, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/stlouiscitycounty\/story\/C9C6EB027A5D31608625751900111A96?OpenDocument\" target=\"_blank\">company holiday parties are taking a hit<\/a>, being downsized or eliminated.<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all know that times are tough. Here are a few stories indicating some of the ways: In Prague, demand for the &#8220;world&#8217;s oldest profession&#8221; has gone down. The brothels are seeing a significant drop in business. Insert your own punch line here. On Broadway, musicals are changing their marketing to emphasize their value and <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=3170\">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":[315],"class_list":["post-3170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-chum","category-lj-xfer","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3170","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=3170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}