{"id":35264,"date":"2013-03-19T08:59:36","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T13:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=35264"},"modified":"2013-03-19T08:59:36","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T13:59:36","slug":"hard-to-believe-this-slipped-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=35264","title":{"rendered":"Hard To Believe This Slipped Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>From the March 19, 2013 Pioneer Press article on Democrats\u2019 e-bingo gamble,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs of late February, budget planners were forecasting about $1.8 million in tax revenue from charitable gambling in fiscal year 2013 for use on the stadium. Estimates last fall had been about $15 million higher, Massman said.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Democrats planned to bring in $15 million to pay for the Vikings stadium, but we\u2019re bringing in less than $2 million? What a blunder!<\/p>\n<p>Who could have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?tag=stadium\">foreseen it<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p>\n<p>Como Park<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, don&#8217;t be silly. \u00a0Blogs don&#8217;t cover news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park writes: From the March 19, 2013 Pioneer Press article on Democrats\u2019 e-bingo gamble, \u201cAs of late February, budget planners were forecasting about $1.8 million in tax revenue from charitable gambling in fiscal year 2013 for use on the stadium. Estimates last fall had been about $15 million higher, Massman said.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,132,123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-mn-legislature","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35264","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=35264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35265,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35264\/revisions\/35265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}