{"id":1997,"date":"2008-01-21T12:57:41","date_gmt":"2008-01-21T17:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1997"},"modified":"2008-01-21T12:57:41","modified_gmt":"2008-01-21T17:57:41","slug":"noted-in-passing-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1997","title":{"rendered":"Noted In Passing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got this via email today (I&#8217;ll keep the sender anonymous, unless the sender <em>wants<\/em> their identity made public); I&#8217;ve added emphasis:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As for the latest gusset plate findings, the <strong>original I35W bridge design and it&#8217;s approval seem to coincide with the peak of <span class=\"yshortcuts\" id=\"lw_1200937517_4\" style=\"cursor: hand; border-bottom: #0066cc 1px dashed\">Minnesota<\/span> political power of Nick Coleman Sr<\/strong>.\u00a0 [the columnist&#8217;s father, and former Minnesota legislative leader]\u00a0If you really want to P.O. &#8220;Nickboy&#8221; you can refer to the collapsed I35W bridge and &#8220;the Nick Coleman Senior collapse I35W bridge&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Heh.<\/p>\n<p>Although that&#8217;d be kind of below the belt; Nick Senior wasn&#8217;t any more an engineer than his son is.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>(Or any less a &#8220;journalist&#8221;, if we presume that the elder Coleman wouldn&#8217;t have been publicity-hungry, or dumb, enough to have blamed politicians for disaster before he knew <em>any <\/em>empirical facts).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got this via email today (I&#8217;ll keep the sender anonymous, unless the sender wants their identity made public); I&#8217;ve added emphasis: As for the latest gusset plate findings, the original I35W bridge design and it&#8217;s approval seem to coincide with the peak of Minnesota political power of Nick Coleman Sr.\u00a0 [the columnist&#8217;s father, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bridge-collapse","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997","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=1997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}