{"id":61100,"date":"2016-11-30T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61100"},"modified":"2016-11-26T21:03:08","modified_gmt":"2016-11-27T03:03:08","slug":"61100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61100","title":{"rendered":"Brakes On Magic-Thinking Gravy Train"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Midway in Saint Paul &#8211; at least, the part between Selby and Thomas &#8211; could use a break. \u00a0After the &#8220;Green Line&#8221; strangled dozens of local businesses and ate up most of the parking that the street&#8217;s businesses depended on, the city looks ready to inflict a soccer stadium on the neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>But it appears at least one business thought it&#8217;d be worth taking a risk on stale, blighted, and ostensibly demo-bound Midway Center.<\/p>\n<p>Which makes the local Soccergentsia nervous:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Well, this doesn&#8217;t seem to be a good sign. Three doors down from the Midway Rainbow, RK Midway fixing up empty retail to rent again? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vMcEhFw7nG\">pic.twitter.com\/vMcEhFw7nG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Brian Quarstad (@IMSoccerNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IMSoccerNews\/status\/798976236227674112\">November 16, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Magical thinking is, apparently, not robust thinking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Midway in Saint Paul &#8211; at least, the part between Selby and Thomas &#8211; could use a break. \u00a0After the &#8220;Green Line&#8221; strangled dozens of local businesses and ate up most of the parking that the street&#8217;s businesses depended on, the city looks ready to inflict a soccer stadium on the neighborhood. But it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,349],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-st-paul","category-urban-liberal-privilege-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61100","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=61100"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61103,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61100\/revisions\/61103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}