{"id":10599,"date":"2009-12-01T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-11-30T19:15:23","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T19:15:23","slug":"november-30-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/01\/november-30-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"November 30 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Hey, did you know Arnold isn&#8217;t even liked in Hollywood anymore? Well, Hollywood Park racetrack anyway. <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2009\/11\/gov-schwarzenegger-is-booed-at-hollywood-park.html\">He got booed while he made an appearance in the Winner&#8217;s Circle there<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Downey is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/breaking-news\/ci_13879093?source=rss\">looking to Tesla&#8217;s potential electric car plant<\/a> for a chance at revitalization. Like many suburbs that boomed with aerospace and defense contracting in the 50s, Downey is struggling to adjust to a new economy. This could be an interesting example for other towns to follow into the green economy.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-uci-video-games30-2009nov30,0,7687377.story\">UC-Irvine is creating a degree in game science<\/a> starting next school year. The idea is to create future video game designers.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 John Fensterwald&#8217;s op-ed in the Mercury News <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/opinion\/ci_13871815\">calls for UC students to hold a teach-in for the public on the California budget mess vis a vis the UC system<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Hey, did you know Arnold isn&#8217;t even liked in Hollywood anymore? Well, Hollywood Park racetrack anyway. <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2009\/11\/gov-schwarzenegger-is-booed-at-hollywood-park.html\">He got booed while he made an appearance in the Winner&#8217;s Circle there<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Downey is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/breaking-news\/ci_13879093?source=rss\">looking to Tesla&#8217;s potential electric car plant<\/a> for a chance at revitalization. Like many suburbs that boomed with aerospace and defense contracting in the 50s, Downey is struggling to adjust to a new economy. This could be an interesting example for other towns to follow into the green economy.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-uci-video-games30-2009nov30,0,7687377.story\">UC-Irvine is creating a degree in game science<\/a> starting next school year. The idea is to create future video game designers.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 John Fensterwald&#8217;s op-ed in the Mercury News <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/opinion\/ci_13871815\">calls for UC students to hold a teach-in for the public on the California budget mess vis a vis the UC system<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2450,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1153],"class_list":["post-10599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-1153"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2KX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2450"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}