{"id":583,"date":"2005-11-18T19:01:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-18T19:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=583"},"modified":"2005-11-18T19:01:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-18T19:01:00","slug":"fantastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/fantastic\/","title":{"rendered":"Fantastic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.commercialappeal.com\/mca\/business\/article\/0,1426,MCA_440_4247941,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Shit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From the CA:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Commercial Appeal joins a growing list of publications either laying off employees or offering buyouts.<\/p>\n<p>The CA Thursday announced it would offer buyouts to about 170 employees in order to reduce staff by mid-January.<\/p>\n<p>Employees who are at least 50 years old and have 15 years of service are eligible. The newspaper employs 774.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The reasons are myriad but start with operating costs, which for newspapers include eight hikes in the price of newsprint since 2002.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Basically newspaper ad revenues are not keeping pace with inflation,&#8221; Morton said. &#8220;The growth is under 3 percent while at the same time newsprint is going up in the range of 10 to 15 percent.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wait, but what about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2128109\/?nav=fix\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Dark times are ahead. I should see about taking the old GRE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shit. From the CA: The Commercial Appeal joins a growing list of publications either laying off employees or offering buyouts. The CA Thursday announced it would offer buyouts to about 170 employees in order to reduce staff by mid-January. Employees who are at least 50 years old and have 15 years of service are eligible. The newspaper employs 774. &#8230; The reasons are myriad but start with operating costs, which for newspapers include eight hikes&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-9p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}