{"id":3914,"date":"2009-01-02T09:17:18","date_gmt":"2009-01-02T14:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3914"},"modified":"2009-01-02T09:17:18","modified_gmt":"2009-01-02T14:17:18","slug":"shining-the-king-banian-signal-on-the-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3914","title":{"rendered":"Shining the &#8220;King Banian Signal&#8221; On The Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You just knew <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/local\/west\/36983709.html\">this was coming<\/a>, didn&#8217;t you?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With the state and federal governments looking for ways to jump-start the economy, a New Jersey businessman has an ambitious public works project he says will create more than 5,500 jobs and provide $500 million or more to local contractors.The businessman is Zygi Wilf, principal owner of the Minnesota Vikings.<\/p>\n<p>The project: A $954 million, state-of-the-art stadium for his football team in downtown Minneapolis &#8212; to be constructed using more than $635 million in public money.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why not? The Vikings are a public asset,&#8221; said Lester Bagley, the Vikings&#8217; vice president in charge of stadium development. &#8220;<strong>This is going to create an economic boost<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, stadiums create no more of an economic boost than, say, light rail.<\/p>\n<p>Kiiiiiiing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You just knew this was coming, didn&#8217;t you? With the state and federal governments looking for ways to jump-start the economy, a New Jersey businessman has an ambitious public works project he says will create more than 5,500 jobs and provide $500 million or more to local contractors.The businessman is Zygi Wilf, principal owner of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minneapolis","category-minnesota-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3914","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=3914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}