{"id":2600,"date":"2006-10-16T22:18:43","date_gmt":"2006-10-16T22:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2600"},"modified":"2006-10-16T22:18:43","modified_gmt":"2006-10-16T22:18:43","slug":"words_with_jerr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2600","title":{"rendered":"Words With Jerry Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.emailthis.clickability.com\/et\/emailThis?clickMap=viewThis&#038;etMailToID=968254764\">Jill Stewart<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The most enduring and intriguing California politician of our generation is sitting in a sidewalk caf&eacute;, enjoying a balmy offshore breeze in this city&#8217;s upscale Belmont Shore district. Yet not a single passerby knows it&#8217;s him.<\/p>\n<p>Laid-back shoppers stream past in linen sundresses and camouflage shorts. This decidedly un-hip man is slightly out of place in his conservative gray suit, fussy dress shirt and white Carroll O&#8217;Connor eyebrows. He&#8217;s not Arnold, instant traffic-stopper. Yet if anyone peered closely, they&#8217;d probably recognize the burning eyes of Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown, the darkly handsome upstart governor of the 1970s, now a gray and balding 68-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s just emerged from a nearly invisible summer to launch a blatantly negative TV ad against his rival for attorney general of California, and he&#8217;s finally granting interviews &#8212; including one to me. Barring a brilliant turnaround by his lesser-known but respected competitor, Republican state Sen. Charles Poochigian of Fresno, Mr. Brown will be the next California attorney general.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> I voted for Jerry once, in the 1992 Presidential Primary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jill Stewart: The most enduring and intriguing California politician of our generation is sitting in a sidewalk caf&eacute;, enjoying a balmy offshore breeze in this city&#8217;s upscale Belmont Shore district. Yet not a single passerby knows it&#8217;s him. Laid-back shoppers stream past in linen sundresses and camouflage shorts. This decidedly un-hip man is slightly out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2600\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}