{"id":48305,"date":"2014-10-21T12:10:45","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T17:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=48305"},"modified":"2014-10-21T11:31:44","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T16:31:44","slug":"for-the-peasants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=48305","title":{"rendered":"For The Peasants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the Soviet era, while Soviet &#8220;citizens&#8221; crowded onto dilapidated streetcars and rattletrap buses, and waited in endless lines for food, shoes, or pretty much all of life&#8217;s essentials, and dreamed about getting their own apartment, maybe, and daydreamed about owning one of the Soviet-era cars that were both biodegradable and cost several years&#8217; salary to buy, the Communist Party <em>nomenklatura <\/em>were whisked about in private cars, shopped in fully-stocked shops that catered to party members only, and had houses in the city and on the lake.<\/p>\n<p>And as the Met Council works overtime to shove Twin Citians into high-density developments and high-density public transit run by high-density public employees, it stands to reason that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/local\/west\/279856052.html\">some things never change<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the Soviet era, while Soviet &#8220;citizens&#8221; crowded onto dilapidated streetcars and rattletrap buses, and waited in endless lines for food, shoes, or pretty much all of life&#8217;s essentials, and dreamed about getting their own apartment, maybe, and daydreamed about owning one of the Soviet-era cars that were both biodegradable and cost several years&#8217; salary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,255],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trains-and-automobiles","category-the-racket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48305","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=48305"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48308,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48305\/revisions\/48308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}