{"id":10681,"date":"2009-12-23T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-12-22T19:30:37","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T19:30:37","slug":"december-22-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/23\/december-22-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"December 22 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 This is old, but I forget to post it earlier. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colbertnation.com\/the-colbert-report-videos\/256430\/november-17-2009\/better-know-a-district---california-s-12th---jackie-speier\">Jackie Speier&#8217;s better know a district segment<\/a> from the Colbert report was really, really funny.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Whoops! The State Auditor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/topstories\/story\/2413463.html#mi_rss=Top%20Stories\">released the names of California state organizations that overhyped job savings<\/a> from the stimulus.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.contracostatimes.com\/politics-government\/ci_14029821?source=rss&#038;nclick_check=1\">CA-11 sock puppets<\/a>. A staffer for a losing Republican in the primary apparently went around to blogs attacking the other candidates.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 CalBuzz is posting pro and con arguments from environmentalists regarding the Tranquillion Ridge project. Today, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calbuzz.com\/2009\/12\/why-some-enviros-back-t-ridge-oil-project\/\">Environmental Defense&#8217;s Linda Krop takes the pro position<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 This is old, but I forget to post it earlier. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colbertnation.com\/the-colbert-report-videos\/256430\/november-17-2009\/better-know-a-district---california-s-12th---jackie-speier\">Jackie Speier&#8217;s better know a district segment<\/a> from the Colbert report was really, really funny.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Whoops! The State Auditor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/topstories\/story\/2413463.html#mi_rss=Top%20Stories\">released the names of California state organizations that overhyped job savings<\/a> from the stimulus.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.contracostatimes.com\/politics-government\/ci_14029821?source=rss&#038;nclick_check=1\">CA-11 sock puppets<\/a>. A staffer for a losing Republican in the primary apparently went around to blogs attacking the other candidates.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 CalBuzz is posting pro and con arguments from environmentalists regarding the Tranquillion Ridge project. Today, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calbuzz.com\/2009\/12\/why-some-enviros-back-t-ridge-oil-project\/\">Environmental Defense&#8217;s Linda Krop takes the pro position<\/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-10681","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-2Mh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10681","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=10681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}