{"id":438,"date":"2010-11-10T20:24:16","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T01:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/http:\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/the-state-of-things\/"},"modified":"2016-12-26T14:16:52","modified_gmt":"2016-12-26T22:16:52","slug":"the-state-of-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/the-state-of-things\/","title":{"rendered":"The State of Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ttr_start\"><\/div><div class='posterous_autopost'>\n<div>1. Yesterday at the BART station I overheard a guy say he was sacked. There were 2500 people in his department and they got rid of 2000 of them.<\/div>\n<div>2. In the last week I have seen two people in my neighborhood sleeping in their cars<\/div>\n<div>3. My sweetie works in a school. I taught him to play a game that only requires a wall clock but none of the rooms where he works has working clocks<\/div>\n<div>4. My sweetie teaches the kids computer lab. He had a kid recently seriously ask him how to get to &quot;the game that makes a blank screen you can write with.&quot; He had another child who did not know what the space bar was for.<\/div>\n<p \/>\n<div>The budget cuts continue.\u00a0<\/div>\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/posterous.com\">Posted via email<\/a>   from <a href=\"http:\/\/futureisfiction.posterous.com\/the-state-of-things\">Future is Fiction<\/a>  <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"ttr_end\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Yesterday at the BART station I overheard a guy say he was sacked. There were 2500 people in his department and they got rid of 2000 of them. 2. In the last week I have seen two people in my neighborhood sleeping in their cars 3. My sweetie works in a school. I taught &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/the-state-of-things\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The State of Things<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17268,"href":"https:\/\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions\/17268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureisfiction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}