{"id":1549,"date":"2007-11-22T07:57:42","date_gmt":"2007-11-22T14:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1549"},"modified":"2007-12-05T17:12:21","modified_gmt":"2007-12-06T00:00:21","slug":"his-la-thank-you-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1549","title":{"rendered":"His L.A. Thank-You List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/opinion\/la-oe-dickson22nov22,0,1029140.story?coll=la-opinion-rightrail\">John Dickson writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>* I am thankful to live in a place where our City Council doesn&#8217;t squander time on local minutia and instead debates the seminal issues: Iraq, Darfur, global warming and, probably soon, the endangerment of the humphead parrotfish. <\/p>\n<p>* I am thankful this city is so responsive to the plight of the mentally ill that police habitually give them free rides to skid row. <\/p>\n<p>* I am thankful Hal Fishman didn&#8217;t live to see a local newscast last week in which the lead story was about &quot;Dancing With the Stars.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>* I am thankful I finally found a house I could afford in Los Angeles even if it was parked on the Hollywood Freeway. <\/p>\n<p>* I am thankful we have enough homes for sale in Los Angeles County to last us until about the time we&#8217;re ready to colonize Mars.<\/p>\n<p>* I am thankful nearly every newspaper and magazine in Los Angeles covers the downtown residential scene so thoroughly, as I am learning so much about the 11 people who dwell there. <\/p>\n<p>* I am thankful not to be the prostitute toiling for madam Jody &quot;Babydol&quot; Gibson who allegedly serviced Tommy Lasorda, when her co-worker purportedly drew Bruce Willis. <\/p>\n<p>* And this year, as every year, I am most thankful for my health, because after paying the proposed DWP rate hikes, phone tax and the raises for the City Council, I will be unable to afford medical insurance.  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Dickson writes: * I am thankful to live in a place where our City Council doesn&#8217;t squander time on local minutia and instead debates the seminal issues: Iraq, Darfur, global warming and, probably soon, the endangerment of the humphead &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1549\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-los-angeles"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}