{"id":3234,"date":"2009-01-21T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=3234"},"modified":"2009-01-21T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-21T23:00:00","slug":"tales-of-chum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=3234","title":{"rendered":"Tales of Chum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some late news chum, as a result of working through my normal lunchtime:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>From the \u201c<b>Financial Tales of Whoa<\/b>\u201d Department:<\/i> The job losses continue to pileup: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/nationworld\/wire\/sns-ap-williams-sonoma-cuts,0,2517398.story\" target=\"_blank\">Williams-Sonoma<\/a>: 1,400 jobs. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-hospital21-2009jan21,0,5770580.story\" target=\"_blank\">Providence-St. Joseph Hospital in Burbank<\/a>: 95 jobs. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-warner21-2009jan21,0,5170332.story\" target=\"_blank\">Warner Bros<\/a>: 800 jobs, with Clear Channel cutting 1,850 jobs, and Disney\/ABC cuts expected soon. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-intel22-2009jan22,0,3884861.story\" target=\"_blank\">Intel<\/a>: 5,000 to 6,000 jobs. Never good news.\n<li><i>From the \u201c<b>Re-tail News<\/b>\u201d Department:<\/i> Prices go up and down. Changes to California taxes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-chuck21-2009jan21,0,4418335.story\" target=\"_blank\">may turn Two-Buck Chuck into Two-and-a-half Buck Chuck<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-retailers21-2009jan21,0,6365204,full.story\" target=\"_blank\">All sorts of retailers are cutting inventory and even going so far as to introduce special \u201cRecession Lines\u201d<\/a>. Expect to see less high-priced items and more special events for regular shoppers.\n<li><i>From the \u201c<b>Cat Tails and Dog Tails<\/b>\u201d Department:<\/i> The Mercury News has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/news\/ci_11504778\" target=\"_blank\">an article on a haven for cats<\/a>: A place called \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cathouseonthekings.com\" target=\"_blank\">Cat House on the Kings<\/a>\u201d, which provides 12 green acres, with over 700 feline friends, field after field of grass to roam and a whole orchard full of trees to climb. There&#8217;s a five-bedroom house when cats want to go inside, and even the newly named Sadie Malone Senior Village, a cabinlike building with ledges by the windows for naps in the sun and two cat doors. For the dog lovers, the AKC has released its list of top-10 breeds. Nationally, the list is: 1.  Labrador retriever; 2.  Yorkshire terrier; 3.  German shepherd; 4.  Golden retriever; 5.  Beagle; 6.  Boxer; 7.  Dachshund; 8.  Bulldog; 9.  Poodle; and 10.  Shih tzu. For just Los Angeles, it is 1. Labrador retriever; 2. Bulldog; 3. German shepherd; 4. Golden retriever; 5. Yorkshire terrier; 6. French bulldog; 7. Poodle; 8. Pug; 9. Pomeranian; and 10. Maltese. You can find <a href=\"http:\/\/www.akc.org\/reg\/topdogsbycity.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">the Top 10 list for major cities here<\/a>. <\/ul>\n<p>P.S.: Oh, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laobserved.com\/biz\/2009\/01\/about_inaugural_cost.php\" target=\"_blank\">Obama\u2019s inauguration did not cost more than Bush\u2019s<\/a>. There are just too many people writing about things they don\u2019t understand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some late news chum, as a result of working through my normal lunchtime: From the \u201cFinancial Tales of Whoa\u201d Department: The job losses continue to pileup: Williams-Sonoma: 1,400 jobs. Providence-St. Joseph Hospital in Burbank: 95 jobs. Warner Bros: 800 jobs, with Clear Channel cutting 1,850 jobs, and Disney\/ABC cuts expected soon. Intel: 5,000 to 6,000 <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=3234\">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":[1],"tags":[315,319,311],"class_list":["post-3234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lj-xfer","tag-economy","tag-obamarama","tag-pets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3234","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=3234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}