{"id":65291,"date":"2017-12-05T07:28:52","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T13:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65291"},"modified":"2017-12-02T09:22:36","modified_gmt":"2017-12-02T15:22:36","slug":"this-is-what-1-4-billion-of-government-work-gets-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=65291","title":{"rendered":"This Is What $1.4 Billion Of Government Work Gets You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It used to be that when you waited for the Green Line train, a little billboard on the platform told you how many minutes away the next train was.<\/p>\n<p>Today?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-65293\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/img_1776.jpg\" width=\"3264\" height=\"2448\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/img_1776.jpg 3264w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/img_1776-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/img_1776-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/img_1776-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/img_1776-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3264px) 100vw, 3264px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The time is nice, if you have a schedule and the trains are on time (which you don&#8217;t and they&#8217;re not).<\/p>\n<p>The track number?\u00a0\u00a0<em>There&#8217;s one track going in that direction<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>But along with the news that mere citizens will be barred from the trains on Super Bowl week, I suspect it&#8217;s just another way of telling the peasants &#8220;be happy we grant you this much largesse, peasant! Be grateful!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It used to be that when you waited for the Green Line train, a little billboard on the platform told you how many minutes away the next train was. Today? The time is nice, if you have a schedule and the trains are on time (which you don&#8217;t and they&#8217;re not). The track number?\u00a0\u00a0There&#8217;s one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trains-and-automobiles","category-unions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65291","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=65291"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65326,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65291\/revisions\/65326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}