{"id":23712,"date":"2011-10-20T06:00:35","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T11:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=23712"},"modified":"2011-10-19T09:38:49","modified_gmt":"2011-10-19T14:38:49","slug":"as-long-as-weve-got-our-priorities-straight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=23712","title":{"rendered":"As Long As We&#8217;ve Got Our Priorities Straight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bridges deficient. Millions needed for repairs. No money in budget because . . .<\/p>\n<p>. . . <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/ci_19143302 \">the money was diverted to light rail<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Priorities, people. Focus on priorities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Speaking of which, I wonder if they ever got that little problem with the Washington Avenue Bridge &#8211; as in, &#8220;is it and its old-fashioned truss construction, not too different from the old 35W Bridge, strong enough to handle trains zipping over it&#8221; &#8211; resolved?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park writes: Bridges deficient. Millions needed for repairs. No money in budget because . . . . . . the money was diverted to light rail. Priorities, people. Focus on priorities. Speaking of which, I wonder if they ever got that little problem with the Washington Avenue Bridge &#8211; as in, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,104,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minneapolis","category-trains-and-automobiles","category-st-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23712","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=23712"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23714,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23712\/revisions\/23714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}