{"id":2061,"date":"2025-02-05T20:32:15","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T00:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/?p=2061"},"modified":"2025-02-05T20:32:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T00:32:15","slug":"so-much-angst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/2025\/02\/05\/so-much-angst\/","title":{"rendered":"So much angst"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The rest of this week is going to be a mess of people in the federal government checking news and just generally being stressed out. The Fork offer closes tomorrow night, then it&#8217;s likely they&#8217;ll take action against probationary employees shortly thereafter. As for the rest of us? Supposedly reductions-in-force (layoffs) are coming to take agencies down by some arbitrary percentage. And who knows if they&#8217;ll actually follow the regulations that lay out the procedures there, since this team doesn&#8217;t seem to care about the law on anything else. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This looks and feels like a coup. I desperately hope I&#8217;m wrong here, that somehow we muddle through, but given the capture of all of the branches of government I&#8217;m increasingly worried that no one is going to stand up to him, at least not without massive upheaval. I would describe myself as a true believer in the American experiment. I&#8217;ve dedicated half my life to serving this country. And I&#8217;ve never felt so much angst about where the government is going. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rest of this week is going to be a mess of people in the federal government checking news and just generally being stressed out. The Fork offer closes tomorrow night, then it&#8217;s likely they&#8217;ll take action against probationary employees shortly thereafter. As for the rest of us? Supposedly reductions-in-force (layoffs) are coming to take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2062,"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061\/revisions\/2062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.countfour.org\/legalmoose\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}