{"id":73923,"date":"2020-04-24T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73923"},"modified":"2020-04-23T06:19:52","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T11:19:52","slug":"let-them-eat-leisure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73923","title":{"rendered":"Let Them Eat Leisure!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A frienc of the blog emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I think the Ayd Mill Road bikeway passed tonight. I&#8217;m not opposed to the bikeway concept. But I cry at the level of insensitivity of some council members. There are many people who &#8220;budgeted and planned&#8221; to feed their families, pay their rent, run their business and suddenly a pandemic occurs. So, they take that money that the budgeted and planned for and stretch it out to do the basics.\u00a0<\/p><p>And while reliable, safe transportation is a basic, a bikeway that basically leads no where is really not paying for basics.<\/p><p>But, as it stands, there continues to be less and less reason for people to come to St Paul and more and more reasons to head elsewhere, so I guess might as well make a bike path that serves the leisure class. And to CM Jalali&#8217;s point, they&#8217;ll certainly &#8220;deserve it&#8221; when there is absolutely nothing left in St Paul.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The other day, a media story noted that the Covid crisis was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73834\">forcing the Twin Cities&#8217; mayors to stop playing Sim City and start focusing on the basics<\/a>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That didn&#8217;t last long.  <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A frienc of the blog emails: I think the Ayd Mill Road bikeway passed tonight. I&#8217;m not opposed to the bikeway concept. But I cry at the level of insensitivity of some council members. There are many people who &#8220;budgeted and planned&#8221; to feed their families, pay their rent, run their business and suddenly a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73923","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=73923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73924,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73923\/revisions\/73924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}