{"id":57,"date":"2005-04-13T13:40:57","date_gmt":"2005-04-13T21:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=57"},"modified":"2005-04-13T13:40:57","modified_gmt":"2005-04-13T21:40:57","slug":"where-does-it-end-oregon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/?p=57","title":{"rendered":"Where does it end? Oregon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems I will do almost anything to avoid my math homework &#8230; including writing a depressingly grim diary update. Yesterday&#8217;s headline story was <em>Santa Cruz faces more bad news on budget front<\/em>. And today&#8217;s &#8230; <em>Budget woes expand in Santa Cruz.<\/em> Although budget shortfalls and related work-worries never completely disappeared, they shifted from &#8220;Will the Center close?&#8221; to &#8220;Will we lose another position?&#8221; Guess what? Here we go again, right back where we started two and a half years ago, with a 4 million dollar budget gap. And that means the Community Center could close, along with a host of other P&#038;R facilities, fire stations, etc. Only this time, we&#8217;ve already asked the voters (twice!) to approve new taxes or keep legally-challenged fees in order to save public services. Will they do it a third time? With gas prices nearing $3 a gallon, rampant layoffs, spiraling health care and housing costs? With everyone feeling the pinch?<\/p>\n<p>So far, I feel numb. I can hardly take in that we&#8217;re here again. My role is different this time. And I personally have less to lose (at least economically-speaking, having already given up more than half of my income.) But if I lose my job, maybe that ten-year-plan of moving to Oregon moves up a notch.<\/p>\n<p>But for now, back to my math &#8230; where every problem has a solution. That&#8217;s a good thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems I will do almost anything to avoid my math homework &#8230; including writing a depressingly grim diary update. Yesterday&#8217;s headline story was Santa Cruz faces more bad news on budget front. And today&#8217;s &#8230; Budget woes expand in Santa Cruz. Although budget shortfalls and related work-worries never completely disappeared, they shifted from &#8220;Will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ourhousehaswheels.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}