{"id":12340,"date":"2010-08-17T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-08-17T02:43:10","modified_gmt":"2010-08-17T02:43:10","slug":"august-16-open-thread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2010\/08\/17\/august-16-open-thread\/","title":{"rendered":"August 16 Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>* Sen. Steinberg says that <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sacbee.com\/capitolalertlatest\/2010\/08\/steinberg-says-new-federal-sch.html\">the new federal money can be used to close the budget gap<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>* Schools, including LA, <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2010\/08\/new-state-test-scores-released-and-schools-fare-better.html\">improved their test scores<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* It looks like <a href=\"http:\/\/totalbuzz.ocregister.com\/2010\/08\/16\/high-court-turns-down-obama-birthplace-lawyer\/39293\/\">Orly Taitz is going to have to pay the fine<\/a>. There are certainly enough birthers to cover that for her, right?<\/p>\n<p>* Dan Walters thinks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/2010\/08\/16\/2960884\/dan-walters-schwarzeneggers-legacy.html\">Arnold is in legacy mode<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* Carla Marinucci <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/nov05election\/detail?entry_id=70255\">fact-checks Drudge on &#8220;Jerry&#8217;s double dipping&#8221;<\/a>. Turns out, shockingly enough, that this was really a non-story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>* Sen. Steinberg says that <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sacbee.com\/capitolalertlatest\/2010\/08\/steinberg-says-new-federal-sch.html\">the new federal money can be used to close the budget gap<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>* Schools, including LA, <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2010\/08\/new-state-test-scores-released-and-schools-fare-better.html\">improved their test scores<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* It looks like <a href=\"http:\/\/totalbuzz.ocregister.com\/2010\/08\/16\/high-court-turns-down-obama-birthplace-lawyer\/39293\/\">Orly Taitz is going to have to pay the fine<\/a>. There are certainly enough birthers to cover that for her, right?<\/p>\n<p>* Dan Walters thinks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/2010\/08\/16\/2960884\/dan-walters-schwarzeneggers-legacy.html\">Arnold is in legacy mode<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>* Carla Marinucci <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/nov05election\/detail?entry_id=70255\">fact-checks Drudge on &#8220;Jerry&#8217;s double dipping&#8221;<\/a>. Turns out, shockingly enough, that this was really a non-story.<\/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-12340","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-3d2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12340","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=12340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}