{"id":2972,"date":"2008-04-15T00:09:34","date_gmt":"2008-04-15T07:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=2972"},"modified":"2008-04-15T00:09:34","modified_gmt":"2008-04-15T07:09:34","slug":"just-when-you-thought-it-couldnt-get-any-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2972\/just-when-you-thought-it-couldnt-get-any-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"Just When You Thought It Couldn&#8217;t Get Any Worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was in Oceanside, CA, Saturday afternoon.\u00a0 My daughter is in the cast of The Wizard of Oz at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinematour.com\/tour\/us\/25026.html\" title=\"star\">Star Theater<\/a>.\u00a0 I watched her debut Friday night so I expected to while away Saturday at the beach or surfing the internet at Jitters Coffee Pub.<\/p>\n<p>An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldwidewealthadvisors.com\/2008\/04\/oceanside-inves.html\" title=\"sign\">interesting sign caught my eye<\/a>.\u00a0 That sign and Mike Farmer&#8217;s proclamation that &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/bonzai.squarespace.com\/blog\/2008\/4\/13\/doom-and-gloom-win-again-real-estate-is-dead.html\" title=\"farmer\">real estate is dead<\/a>&#8221; (he read it everywhere) got my contrarian mind whirring.\u00a0 The mere appearance of this sign affirmed my reason to join the <strike>Dan Melson recovery camp<\/strike> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danmelson.com\/2008\/03\/san_diego_housing_market_march.html\" title=\"dan\">Searchlight Crusade<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>N.B- Dan&#8217;s one of the sharpest out here; it sucks that he&#8217;s in my backyard.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Then, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20080414\/ap_on_sc\/california_quakes\" title=\"quake\">I read this<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;I&#8217;m just gonna recommend neg-am ARMs.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/armageddoncocktailhour.wordpress.com\/2006\/09\/27\/mel-gibson-predicts-world-will-end-in-2012\/\" title=\"mel\">Ask Mel Gibson why<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in Oceanside, CA, Saturday afternoon.\u00a0 My daughter is in the cast of The Wizard of Oz at the Star Theater.\u00a0 I watched her debut Friday night so I expected to while away Saturday at the beach or surfing the internet at Jitters Coffee Pub. An interesting sign caught my eye.\u00a0 That sign and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-casual-friday","7":"category-group-therapy","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15812,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/15812\/saturday-night-at-830-pm-is-human-achievement-hour-stop-cursing-the-darkness-by-turning-on-the-lights\/","url_meta":{"origin":2972,"position":0},"title":"Saturday night at 8:30 pm is Human Achievement Hour. 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