{"id":15,"date":"2014-09-26T23:55:21","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T23:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com.previewc40.carrierzone.com\/?p=15"},"modified":"2014-09-26T23:55:21","modified_gmt":"2014-09-26T23:55:21","slug":"gavin-newsom-privatized-55-acres-of-golden-gate-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/?p=15","title":{"rendered":"Gavin Newsom Privatized 55 Acres of Golden Gate Park!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gavin Newsom privatized 55 acres of Golden Gate Park.<\/p>\n<p>Once known as Strybing Arboretum, it is now known as the\u00a0San Francisco Botanical Gardens and charges $7 admission.<\/p>\n<p>If you go around behind the Hall of Flowers, however, you can find the gates open from Monday to Saturday until around 2:30 PM or sometimes later. (Vehicles line up at 3 PM to leave, and the gates are shut then. Prior to privatization, these gates were open until dusk.)<\/p>\n<p>Head straight in and find the Native Plant Garden, a garden started by Menzies, Gavin Newsom&#8217;s grandfather. He must be rolling over in his grave now!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Gavin Newsom: I&#039;m  against fees at the  Arboretum (San Francisco Botanical Gardens)\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ovcQFRTeHZQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Gavin has a history of running away. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>The frat boy has a way with the Gettys but an unfamiliarity with statistics.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the story of the privatization:<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.indybay.org\/newsitems\/2013\/12\/15\/18747857.php<\/p>\n<p>Astonishingly, Michael McKechnie, the director who first tried to get permanent fees, now heads the Angel Island Immigration Foundation:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mirkarimi Asks McKechnie About the San Francisco Botanical Garden Society&#039;s Lobbyist Sam Lauter\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8QUOJNqg8JU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gavin Newsom privatized 55 acres of Golden Gate Park. Once known as Strybing Arboretum, it is now known as the\u00a0San Francisco Botanical Gardens and charges $7 admission. If you go around behind the Hall of Flowers, however, you can find the gates open from Monday to Saturday until around 2:30 PM or sometimes later. (Vehicles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,15,14,13,10,9,12,2,3,5,11,6,8,4],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-7","tag-arrogance","tag-california","tag-governor","tag-helene-strybing","tag-john-mcclaren","tag-neoliberalism","tag-newsom","tag-park-privatization","tag-phil-ginsburg","tag-public-meetings","tag-seiu","tag-vince-courtney","tag-walk-away"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gavin-newsom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}