{"id":184393,"date":"2012-05-13T12:53:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-13T17:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/05\/13\/words-i-never-thought-that-i-would-ever-say\/"},"modified":"2012-05-13T12:53:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-13T17:53:00","slug":"words-i-never-thought-that-i-would-ever-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/05\/13\/words-i-never-thought-that-i-would-ever-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Words I Never Thought That I Would Ever Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good for George Lucas.<\/p>\n<p>George Lucas wanted to expand his movie studios in Marin County, but has been running into a torrent of obstructionism and NIMBY from the local home owners for 25 years, and so they&#8217;ve thrown in the towel, and will be selling the land to the Marin County Foundation to create low-income housing:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>He&#8217;s working with the Marin Community Foundation to instead construct affordable housing for either low-income families or seniors living on small, fixed incomes. In order to smooth along the development, he&#8217;s already given them all of the pricey technical studies and land surveys Lucasfilm spent years conducting. And we think that&#8217;s just great. Because if there&#8217;s one thing rich people will hate more than having movie magic made in their backyard, it&#8217;s poor people moving in.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Heh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good for George Lucas. George Lucas wanted to expand his movie studios in Marin County, but has been running into a torrent of obstructionism and NIMBY from the local home owners for 25 years, and so they&#8217;ve thrown in the towel, and will be selling the land to the Marin County Foundation to create low-income &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[993,1064,1088,985,1019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cinema","category-media","category-real-estate","category-regulation","category-schadenfreude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184393"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}