{"id":2406,"date":"2018-12-22T22:58:20","date_gmt":"2018-12-22T22:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=2406"},"modified":"2018-12-22T22:58:47","modified_gmt":"2018-12-22T22:58:47","slug":"blm-and-trumps-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=2406","title":{"rendered":"BLM and Trump&#8217;s shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sitting on BLM land right now.  The check-in station is closed, but the dump and water stations are open, though not monitored.  So it&#8217;s basically business-as-usual, very low impact.  These functions are staffed by unpaid volunteers, but they cannot &#8220;work&#8221; anyway during the shutdown.  No savings here.<\/p>\n<p>An observation:  Over the last month I&#8217;ve seen BLM enforcement just once.  Today I&#8217;ve seen them 5 times.  This may be the usual gov&#8217;t theater when they want to make a point,  but extra staff put on for the shutdown just increases costs.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s absurd adults act this way&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sitting on BLM land right now. The check-in station is closed, but the dump and water stations are open, though not monitored. So it&#8217;s basically business-as-usual, very low impact. These functions are staffed by unpaid volunteers, but they cannot &#8220;work&#8221; anyway during the shutdown. No savings here. An observation: Over the last month I&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2406"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2408,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406\/revisions\/2408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}