{"id":61201,"date":"2016-12-02T09:23:30","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T15:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61201"},"modified":"2016-12-02T09:30:27","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T15:30:27","slug":"or-cut-bait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=61201","title":{"rendered":"&#8230;Or Cut Bait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Well, who\u2019d want to watch them anyway, the Vikings suck so <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/28\/officials-behind-500-million-vikings-sta\"><span class=\"s2\">who cares that bigshots get free box seats<\/span><\/a>?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Joe Doakes<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p2\">When it comes to kleptocracy, it&#8217;s tempting to say &#8220;so you&#8217;re the richest, most powerful man&#8230;in Bolivia. \u00a0So what?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Box seats at the Vikings are like that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">But it&#8217;s the principle of the thing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Well, who\u2019d want to watch them anyway, the Vikings suck so who cares that bigshots get free box seats? \u00a0Joe Doakes When it comes to kleptocracy, it&#8217;s tempting to say &#8220;so you&#8217;re the richest, most powerful man&#8230;in Bolivia. \u00a0So what?&#8221; Box seats at the Vikings are like that. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[255],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-racket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61201","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=61201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61202,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61201\/revisions\/61202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}