{"id":75428,"date":"2020-09-30T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75428"},"modified":"2020-09-24T09:56:54","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T14:56:54","slug":"dead-dead-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=75428","title":{"rendered":"Dead, Dead, Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A friend of the blog emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Downtown St Paul does need some improvement. It has been pretty lifeless for a while. <\/p><p>But, I don&#8217;t think <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/2020\/09\/23\/st-paul-city-council-approves-600000-charge-for-downtown-improvement-district\/\">collecting more money from the few businesses that remain there<\/a> is quite the way to improve it, though I guess it is better than burning it down as they did for the Midway Improvement Project.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>If you see both projects as glorified transfers of wealth from whatever private sector remains in Saint Paul to the political class, it all makes perfect sense. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of the blog emails: Downtown St Paul does need some improvement. It has been pretty lifeless for a while. But, I don&#8217;t think collecting more money from the few businesses that remain there is quite the way to improve it, though I guess it is better than burning it down as they did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[419,57,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2020-riots","category-economy-and-the-market","category-st-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75428","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=75428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75429,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75428\/revisions\/75429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}