{"id":12233,"date":"2010-08-03T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-08-03T17:38:25","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T17:38:25","slug":"august-2-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/08\/03\/august-2-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"August 2 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Links: <\/p>\n<p>* This discussion pretty much happens every cycle, but will <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sacbee.com\/capitolalertlatest\/2010\/08\/is-loretta-sanchez-eyeing-a-20.html\">Loretta Sanchez finally make that governor bid that she has had an account for<\/a> for a few years now?<\/p>\n<p>* Rod Wright is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/opinion\/opinionla\/la-me-sports-gambling-20100802,0,2766449.story\">looking at sports books<\/a>, suggesting that they would be one way of bringing in a quick billion. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* George Schultz, former Sec. of State under President Reagan, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-cap-20100802,0,5403557.column\">thinks California should reject Prop 23 and continue to fight climate change<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* Wow. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.californiawatch.org\/watchblog\/california-and-utah-only-states-2-actively-shorten-school-year-175\">Only 2 states allow districts to shorten school years<\/a> to less than 180 days, California and Utah. This will come back to haunt the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links: <\/p>\n<p>* This discussion pretty much happens every cycle, but will <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sacbee.com\/capitolalertlatest\/2010\/08\/is-loretta-sanchez-eyeing-a-20.html\">Loretta Sanchez finally make that governor bid that she has had an account for<\/a> for a few years now?<\/p>\n<p>* Rod Wright is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/opinion\/opinionla\/la-me-sports-gambling-20100802,0,2766449.story\">looking at sports books<\/a>, suggesting that they would be one way of bringing in a quick billion. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* George Schultz, former Sec. of State under President Reagan, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-cap-20100802,0,5403557.column\">thinks California should reject Prop 23 and continue to fight climate change<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* Wow. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.californiawatch.org\/watchblog\/california-and-utah-only-states-2-actively-shorten-school-year-175\">Only 2 states allow districts to shorten school years<\/a> to less than 180 days, California and Utah. This will come back to haunt the state.<\/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-12233","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-3bj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12233","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=12233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}