{"id":8605,"date":"2013-10-05T12:00:03","date_gmt":"2013-10-05T19:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=8605"},"modified":"2013-10-05T12:10:25","modified_gmt":"2013-10-05T19:10:25","slug":"furlough-news-chum-stew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=8605","title":{"rendered":"Furlough News Chum Stew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8131\" alt=\"Observation Stew\" src=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/stew.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"75\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/>It&#8217;s Saturday. Furlough or not, that means it&#8217;s time to clear out the accumulated links (while I listen to some new music&#8230; 32767 songs, here I come)&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Furlough News.<\/strong> Here are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/andrewkaczynski\/realpeople-are-hurting-from-the-shutdown\">25 Front Pages that show how real people are hurting from the furlough<\/a>. Want something closer to home? <a href=\"http:\/\/thesource.metro.net\/2013\/10\/04\/share-the-ride-during-california-rideshare-week-oct-7-11-for-chance-to-win-prizes\/\">Next week is California Rideshare Week<\/a>. I know our van will be down from 6 to 2, and a number of vans won&#8217;t be running at all. This will skew the numbers, and may imperil vanpool registration in the Metro program.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Don&#8217;t Jump<\/strong>. Here an article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/opinion\/commentary\/la-oe-bateson-golden-gate-bridge-suicides-20130929,0,2813212.story?track=rss&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+latimes%2Fmostviewed+%28L.A.+Times+-+Most+Viewed+Stories%29\">the suicide magnet that is the Golden Gate Bridge<\/a>. Want a different perspective on suicide. <a href=\"http:\/\/freakonomics.com\/2011\/08\/31\/new-freakonomics-radio-podcast-the-suicide-paradox\/\">Here&#8217;s one that only an economist can give<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Broken Instruments<\/strong>. Boy, this seems to be downer post. First we have the furlough, then suicides, and now&#8230; here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laobserved.com\/archive\/2013\/10\/lausds_warehouse_of_broke.php\">an article on the whole warehouse of broken instruments at LAUSD<\/a>. There&#8217;s no money to repair them, so they backlog grows and grows.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Where Do The Elephants Go?<\/strong> Here&#8217;s one answer: <a href=\"http:\/\/libraryarchives.metro.net\/DPGTL\/Californiahighways\/chpw_1927_dec.pdf\">Look on page 12 of the December 1927 CHPW<\/a>. So, somewhere near Orick near US 101 is the buried carcass of an elephant.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Music:<\/strong> <i>No Man&#8217;s Land<\/i> (Charlie Peacock): &#8220;Beauty Left the Room&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Saturday. Furlough or not, that means it&#8217;s time to clear out the accumulated links (while I listen to some new music&#8230; 32767 songs, here I come)&#8230; Furlough News. Here are 25 Front Pages that show how real people are hurting from the furlough. Want something closer to home? Next week is California Rideshare Week. <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=8605\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[364,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","category-news-chum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8605","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=8605"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8608,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8605\/revisions\/8608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}