{"id":1896,"date":"2009-09-09T13:49:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T13:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/09\/09\/2009-9-9-cant-afford-the-cake-html\/"},"modified":"2009-09-09T13:49:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-09T13:49:00","slug":"2009-9-9-cant-afford-the-cake-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/2009-9-9-cant-afford-the-cake-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Can&#8217;t Afford The Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/bear_flag.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/bear_flag.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"We can't afford color either.\" \/><\/a><br \/>Friends,<\/p>\n<p>Today marks the 159th anniversary of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/California\" target=\"_blank\">Great State of California<\/a> becoming a state. Truly a momentous occasion, considering that we&#8217;re the third largest state by land mass and first in population. We still have one of the largest economies in the world despite the fact that the legislature as a whole couldn&#8217;t be trusted to put the cream filling in an Oreo.<\/p>\n<p>This calls for a celebration! What is the state government doing to mark this historic event?<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ca.gov\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 350px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/ca-dot-gov.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Um, wow?\" \/><\/a><br \/>It&#8217;s hard to tell from the screen shot, but I think what we&#8217;re doing in this year of budget constraint is that each citizen takes turns applying eye makeup to Maria Shriver. You&#8217;ve gotta give credit to the party planners in Sacramento. I never would&#8217;ve thought to do that.<\/p>\n<p>It looks like loads of fun though&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>bob<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends, Today marks the 159th anniversary of the Great State of California becoming a state. Truly a momentous occasion, considering that we&#8217;re the third largest state by land mass and first in population. We still have one of the largest economies in the world despite the fact that the legislature as a whole couldn&#8217;t be &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/2009-9-9-cant-afford-the-cake-html\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Can&#8217;t Afford The Cake&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-1896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-this-crappy-year"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}