{"id":11732,"date":"2010-05-25T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-05-24T16:51:32","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T16:51:32","slug":"may-24-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/05\/25\/may-24-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"May 24 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>* The Republican candidates can&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.contracostatimes.com\/top-stories\/ci_15140023?nclick_check=1\">attack each other enough, &#8220;poisoning&#8221; the electorate<\/a>. Poor Whitman and Poizner.<\/p>\n<p>* The California Democratic Party <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitolweekly.net\/article.php?_c=yv1r0ek3uklxdh&#038;xid=yv1q4h0fs5ptp0&#038;done=.yv1r0ek3ulaxdh\">gave a couple million bucks to Jerry Brown&#8217;s campaign<\/a>. In all likelihood, this was money that was raised using the party as a conduit.<\/p>\n<p>* The Chronicle <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2010\/05\/24\/MND61DHJTE.DTL\">suggests looking to Alaska for context about how marijuana legalization might go<\/a>. The state has had very strong privacy protection that has meant it was legal to cultivate and use small amounts of the drug at home for thirty-five years.<\/p>\n<p>* California <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/23\/us\/23sfdental.html\">lags behind the nation in dental care<\/a> for children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>* The Republican candidates can&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.contracostatimes.com\/top-stories\/ci_15140023?nclick_check=1\">attack each other enough, &#8220;poisoning&#8221; the electorate<\/a>. Poor Whitman and Poizner.<\/p>\n<p>* The California Democratic Party <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitolweekly.net\/article.php?_c=yv1r0ek3uklxdh&#038;xid=yv1q4h0fs5ptp0&#038;done=.yv1r0ek3ulaxdh\">gave a couple million bucks to Jerry Brown&#8217;s campaign<\/a>. In all likelihood, this was money that was raised using the party as a conduit.<\/p>\n<p>* The Chronicle <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2010\/05\/24\/MND61DHJTE.DTL\">suggests looking to Alaska for context about how marijuana legalization might go<\/a>. The state has had very strong privacy protection that has meant it was legal to cultivate and use small amounts of the drug at home for thirty-five years.<\/p>\n<p>* California <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/23\/us\/23sfdental.html\">lags behind the nation in dental care<\/a> for children.<\/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-11732","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-33e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11732","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=11732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}