{"id":54,"date":"2009-07-08T19:08:36","date_gmt":"2009-07-09T00:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teretereba.com\/wp\/?p=54"},"modified":"2016-05-30T19:01:27","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T02:01:27","slug":"cheap-cheesy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/08\/cheap-cheesy\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheap &amp; Cheesy&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teretereba.com\/blog\/media\/blogs\/picks\/city_hall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"City Hall\" src=\"http:\/\/www.teretereba.com\/blog\/media\/blogs\/picks\/city_hall.jpg\" alt=\"City Hall\" width=\"354\" height=\"556\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/><\/a>Like the state, the city of Los Angeles is on precarious financial footing. It&#8217;s outrageous to think that Staples Center &amp; AEG (promoters of the obviously now cancelled 50 MJ concerts) &amp; the Jackson family&#8211;who will all profit handsomely from Michael Jackson&#8217;s funeral&#8211;are making taxpayers foot the <a title=\"LAPD says overtime for Michael Jackson memorial cost $1 million\" href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2009\/07\/lapd-places-overtime-cost-for-michael-jackson-memorial-at-1-million.html\">multi-million-$ security<\/a> tab for MJ&#8217;s funeral. While basic services &amp; schools are going thru draconian cuts, what&#8217;s wrong w\/ this mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa? He couldn&#8217;t arrange for the bill to be paid privately? I shout cronyism! His deputy had the unfortunate task of announcing a <a title=\"Click here to donate to Michael Jackson's memorial service.\" href=\"http:\/\/mayor.lacity.org\/PressRoom\/PressReleases\/LACITYP_005598\">website to beg fans to contribute<\/a> to the expense.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like the state, the city of Los Angeles is on precarious financial footing. It&#8217;s outrageous to think that Staples Center &amp; AEG (promoters of the obviously now cancelled 50 MJ concerts) &amp; the Jackson family&#8211;who will all profit handsomely from Michael Jackson&#8217;s funeral&#8211;are making taxpayers foot the multi-million-$ security tab for MJ&#8217;s funeral. While basic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,3],"tags":[7557,7711,12233],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-and-fashion","category-politics","category-thoughts","tag-los-angeles","tag-michael-jackson","tag-michael-jackson-death","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2944,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/2944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teretereba.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}