{"id":28729,"date":"2012-07-03T04:59:45","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T09:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=28729"},"modified":"2012-07-01T10:43:55","modified_gmt":"2012-07-01T15:43:55","slug":"lipstick-on-a-800-pound-hog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=28729","title":{"rendered":"Lipstick On An 800 Pound Hog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After spending the last few years doing its best to kill off businesses on University Avenue, the Met Council is <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.twincities.com\/cityhallscoop\/2012\/06\/28\/for-1-2-million-central-corridor-marketing-goes-mod\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+twincities%2FYYPN+%28City+Hall+Scoop%29\">embarking on yet another effort<\/a> to get people to go to places most of them never went in the first place, and can&#8217;t get to now because of all the light rail construction.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes of Como Park responds:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I\u2019d like to shop Central Corridor but I can\u2019t get there \u2013 it\u2019s torn up for miles, even cross streets \u2013 and will be until 2014. What\u2019s the point of inviting customers to a destination they can\u2019t get to?<\/p>\n<p>Wonder who these ad people are related to, or who they knew to land this contract.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To be fair, you <em>can <\/em>get to these destinations. \u00a0Although the route resembles something from the first Indiana Jones movie at times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After spending the last few years doing its best to kill off businesses on University Avenue, the Met Council is embarking on yet another effort to get people to go to places most of them never went in the first place, and can&#8217;t get to now because of all the light rail construction. Joe Doakes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trains-and-automobiles","category-st-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28729","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=28729"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28733,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28729\/revisions\/28733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}