{"id":411,"date":"2004-08-27T23:10:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-28T06:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2004\/08\/27\/toluca-lake-california-26\/"},"modified":"2004-08-27T23:10:00","modified_gmt":"2004-08-28T06:10:00","slug":"toluca-lake-california-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2004\/08\/27\/toluca-lake-california-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Toluca Lake, California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sadly there has been <i>nothing<\/i> of interest to write about lately.  The daily routine right now consists of getting up at 7:30, working until 8:00 or 9:00, either going to the gym or else reading a bit, and then (hopefully) falling asleep at a reasonable hour.  I have the lifestyle of a seventy year old while still only twenty-eight.<\/p>\n<p>Also, from the soapbox, if you live in a state where your vote is going to matter (which sadly excludes all but a <a href=\"http:\/\/actforvictory.org\/\">handful of states<\/a>), please make the effort to get out and vote for Kerry.  Practically every issue that matters to me has been trampled by Bush, and yet he stands a good chance of being given four more years to continue.  His record on the environment?  The past four years have been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.movingideas.org\/issuesindepth\/environment.html\">horrific<\/a>, with everything from logging in the guise of fire suppression to attempts to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.  Fiscal responsibility?  The deficits are at a record due to the tax cuts and uncontrolled spending.  International relations?  Anti-American sentiment is as bad as it&#8217;s probably ever been.  Morality and values?  The country is the most polarized it&#8217;s been since the sixties, we&#8217;re in the midst of the dirtiest election campaign I can remember, and personal liberties are being attacked in this country (see the Patriot Act) and abroad (see Abu Gharib).  Bush seems like a nice, well-meaning guy and all, but I don&#8217;t see how four more years of his leadership could be anything other than a disaster.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/projectbillboard.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Think About It\" class=\"img-main\" height=\"149\" src=\"http:\/\/projectbillboard.com\/images\/dove_billboard.gif\" width=\"405\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">Most people think &#8220;liberal whacko&#8221; when they see an image like this one. But<br \/>think about the message &#8212; it&#8217;s a very obvious truth that has been proven by<br \/>history.  What kind of values do we have if this &#8220;seems&#8221; wrong at first glance?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sadly there has been nothing of interest to write about lately. The daily routine right now consists of getting up at 7:30, working until 8:00 or 9:00, either going to the gym or else reading a bit, and then (hopefully) falling asleep at a reasonable hour. I have the lifestyle of a seventy year old &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2004\/08\/27\/toluca-lake-california-26\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Toluca Lake, California&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}