{"id":3625,"date":"2010-02-25T07:53:52","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T12:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=3625"},"modified":"2010-02-25T07:53:52","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T12:53:52","slug":"repostthe-fat-lady-has-sung-nytimes-com-op-ed-columnist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/25\/repostthe-fat-lady-has-sung-nytimes-com-op-ed-columnist\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost::The Fat Lady Has Sung &#8211; NYTimes.com :: Op-Ed Columnist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was wow. Disbelief.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A small news item from Tracy, Calif., caught my eye last week. Local station CBS 13 reported: \u201cTracy residents will now have to pay every time they call 911 for a medical emergency. But there are a couple of options. Residents can pay a $48 voluntary fee for the year, which allows them to call 911 as many times as necessary. Or there\u2019s the option of not signing up for the annual fee. Instead they will be charged $300 if they make a call for help.\u201d<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/21\/opinion\/21friedman.html\">Op-Ed Columnist &#8211; The Fat Lady Has Sung &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was wow. Disbelief. A small news item from Tracy, Calif., caught my eye last week. Local station CBS 13 reported: \u201cTracy residents will now have to pay every time they call 911 for a medical emergency. But there are a couple of options. Residents can pay a $48 voluntary fee for the year, which &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/25\/repostthe-fat-lady-has-sung-nytimes-com-op-ed-columnist\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost::The Fat Lady Has Sung &#8211; NYTimes.com :: Op-Ed Columnist&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}