{"id":4825,"date":"2009-05-22T12:27:53","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T17:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4825"},"modified":"2009-12-18T12:29:01","modified_gmt":"2009-12-18T17:29:01","slug":"there-goes-the-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4825","title":{"rendered":"There Goes The Neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Start the death-watch on the Midway&#8217;s long, hard-fought revival; pre-construction work for the &#8220;Central Corridor&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minnpost.com\/politicalagenda\/2009\/05\/22\/9018\/light_rail_work_has_begun_in_st_paul\">began today<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"regular\">Crews have started spray-painting and chalking symbols and numbers on streets and utility poles to guide workers when they start ripping up pavement as early as next month.<\/p>\n<p>Real construction &#8212; laying the rails and building the stations &#8212; won&#8217;t start until next summer at the earliest.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So long, Midway based around a relatively vibrant University Avenue.\u00a0 So long, Frogtown, saved once-upon-a-time by the raw, naked capitalism of a couple generations worth of plucky immigrants.\u00a0 It&#8217;s been nice knowing the both of you.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s for the children!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s for the children!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s for the children!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s for the children!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s for the children&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Start the death-watch on the Midway&#8217;s long, hard-fought revival; pre-construction work for the &#8220;Central Corridor&#8221; began today: Crews have started spray-painting and chalking symbols and numbers on streets and utility poles to guide workers when they start ripping up pavement as early as next month. Real construction &#8212; laying the rails and building the stations [&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-4825","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\/4825","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=4825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7309,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4825\/revisions\/7309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}