{"id":15357,"date":"2010-11-15T05:13:54","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T10:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=15357"},"modified":"2010-11-14T09:18:17","modified_gmt":"2010-11-14T14:18:17","slug":"trimming-the-fat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=15357","title":{"rendered":"Trimming The Fat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes of Como Park writes about New York City&#8217;s recent decision to <a href=\"http:\/\/newyork.cbslocal.com\/2010\/11\/12\/cash-strapped-nyc-will-no-longer-look-for-lost-pets\/\">stop using city resources to look for lost pets<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s sad the City won&#8217;t look for lost pets.  We lost a cat once and thinking someone may have turned him in, I searched everywhere, for days, visited shelters and even put up posters, without success.  Heartbreaking.<\/p>\n<p>So why is New York City being so cruel, so heartless, so cold &#8211; does the city government hate kittens and want them to DIE DIE DIE?<\/p>\n<p>Or is this how it looks when actual leadership makes real world budget decisions in a day of declining revenues?  Is this what the word &#8220;prioritize&#8221; means?<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it&#8217;s sad lost pets stay lost; but unless you can convince everybody in town to pony up more money for pet searches instead of, say pothole repair, that&#8217;s reality.  That&#8217;s a decision real leadership must make.<\/p>\n<p>Wonder what city services would look like if St. Paul had any leadership?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to have to try that next time Saint Paul releases a budget; post it, and then throw it open to the audience to see what we cut.<\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t be any worse than what we have in Saint Paul now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes of Como Park writes about New York City&#8217;s recent decision to stop using city resources to look for lost pets: It&#8217;s sad the City won&#8217;t look for lost pets. We lost a cat once and thinking someone may have turned him in, I searched everywhere, for days, visited shelters and even put up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-money","category-st-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15357"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15359,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15357\/revisions\/15359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}