{"id":62655,"date":"2017-04-06T06:00:21","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T11:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=62655"},"modified":"2017-04-05T11:17:09","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T16:17:09","slug":"on-april-2-its-not-funny-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=62655","title":{"rendered":"On April 2, It&#8217;s Not Funny Anymore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A regular reader writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">If only all of the transit oriented development projects that have destroyed neighborhoods h<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/2017\/04\/04\/april-fools-prank-draws-residents-to-fake-meeting-on-st-paul-transit-planning\/\">ad been just an April Fool&#8217;s day joke<\/a>&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">Alas, the other 364 days a year, the government of Saint Paul and the Met Council are as funny as chemotherapy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A regular reader writes: If only all of the transit oriented development projects that have destroyed neighborhoods had been just an April Fool&#8217;s day joke&#8230; Alas, the other 364 days a year, the government of Saint Paul and the Met Council are as funny as chemotherapy.<\/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-62655","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\/62655","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=62655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62656,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62655\/revisions\/62656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}