{"id":23683,"date":"2010-09-17T07:31:20","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T15:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=23683"},"modified":"2010-09-17T12:09:17","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T20:09:17","slug":"california-braces-for-showdown-on-emissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=23683","title":{"rendered":"California Braces for Showdown on Emissions?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I instinctively don&#8217;t trust anything that Adam Nagourney writes. The guy is consistently out to lunch.<\/p>\n<p>For the past 14 hours, NYTimes.com has featured as its top story, &#8220;<A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/09\/17\/us\/17pollute.html?_r=1&#038;hp\">California Braces for Showdown on Emissions<\/a>&#8221; by Adam Nagourney.<\/p>\n<p>I knew about this ballot measure but nobody has ever talked to me about it. I have not noticed anybody in California bracing for this vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I instinctively don&#8217;t trust anything that Adam Nagourney writes. The guy is consistently out to lunch. For the past 14 hours, NYTimes.com has featured as its top story, &#8220;California Braces for Showdown on Emissions&#8221; by Adam Nagourney. 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