{"id":3469,"date":"2011-01-19T13:06:39","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T18:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3469"},"modified":"2011-01-19T13:07:38","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T18:07:38","slug":"the-golden-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=3469","title":{"rendered":"The Golden State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Public employee <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/opinion\/commentary\/la-oe-fritz-pension-reform-20110118,0,7987400.story\">pensions<\/a> are killing it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>These huge and growing slices of the budget pie are needed to pay for average state retirement packages now valued at more than $1.2 million. The taxpayers who pay for those retirement benefits have an average of $60,000 saved for their own retirement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public employee pensions are killing it: These huge and growing slices of the budget pie are needed to pay for average state retirement packages&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3469"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}