{"id":43495,"date":"2014-04-30T12:00:33","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T17:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=43495"},"modified":"2014-04-30T10:35:08","modified_gmt":"2014-04-30T15:35:08","slug":"the-unthinkable-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=43495","title":{"rendered":"The Unthinkable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the eternal battle between crony controlled, politically endorsed monopolies and new service is popular among hipsters, a Minneapolis City Councilman has proposed \u2013 well, suggested \u2013 the unthinkable.<\/p>\n<p>The Minneapolis city Council match in a public hearing to determine how to deal with the difference in regulation between the city sponsored taxicab monopoly, and the new ridesharing services like Uber and Lyft. Some cities have opted to back the monopolies.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>. But in Minneapolis, the ordinance sponsor, Council Member Jacob Frey, said after the hearing that he doesn\u2019t yet know if that\u2019s an option but he is open to considering <strong>relaxed taxi regulations<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What will those Democrats think of next?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the eternal battle between crony controlled, politically endorsed monopolies and new service is popular among hipsters, a Minneapolis City Councilman has proposed \u2013 well, suggested \u2013 the unthinkable. The Minneapolis city Council match in a public hearing to determine how to deal with the difference in regulation between the city sponsored taxicab monopoly, 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":[57,17,104,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-minneapolis","category-trains-and-automobiles","category-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43495","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=43495"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43506,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43495\/revisions\/43506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}