{"id":484838,"date":"2026-10-04T13:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T13:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/484838\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T13:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T13:40:08","slug":"they-said-it-punishing-behavior-you-want-to-see-in-san-jose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/484838\/","title":{"rendered":"They said it: Punishing behavior you want to see in San Jose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIf you want people to come downtown, if you want people to work downtown and live downtown, don\u2019t make it harder and more inaccessible for them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rachel Warner, an employee at downtown bars Caravan and 7 Bamboo, to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/09\/30\/san-jose-downtown-parking-meters-garage-rates-september-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose City Council members who considered doubling downtown parking meter rates<\/a>. The council instead voted to raise parking garage rates. She added: \u201cthe best advice I ever got as a parent is don\u2019t punish the behavior that you want to see.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIf you want people to come downtown, if you want people to work downtown and live downtown, don\u2019t&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[184,7,8,409,57615,11649,181,23,100,2426,13,385,88,5500,90,89],"class_list":["post-484838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-bay-area","tag-california","tag-california-news","tag-city-politics","tag-in-case-you-missed-it","tag-internal-affairs","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-parking","tag-politics","tag-regional","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-city-council","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}