{"id":571,"date":"2004-02-03T07:08:16","date_gmt":"2004-02-03T12:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/02\/state_of_the_state\/"},"modified":"2004-02-03T07:08:16","modified_gmt":"2004-02-03T12:08:16","slug":"state_of_the_state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/02\/state_of_the_state\/","title":{"rendered":"State of the State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Phil Bredesen, who currently enjoys a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/government\/archives\/04\/02\/46408780.shtml?Element_ID=46408780\">72% approval rating<\/a>, gave his &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/government\/archives\/04\/02\/46387877.shtml\">State of the State<\/a>&#8221; address last night.  The governor also presented <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/government\/archives\/04\/02\/46400741.shtml?Element_ID=46400741\">a budget<\/a> calling for a 7.4% increase in spending, a majority of which is targeted toward TennCare, education, and state employee pay raises.  There&#8217;s no tax increases.<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t we all long for the return of Sunquist more and more with each passing day?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/02\/state_of_the_state\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to State of the State\"><p>Governor Phil Bredesen, who currently enjoys a 72% approval rating, gave his &#8220;State of the State&#8221; address last night. The governor also presented a budget calling for a 7.4% increase in spending, a majority of which is targeted toward TennCare, education, and state employee pay raises. There&#8217;s no tax increases. Don&#8217;t we all long for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-571","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}