{"id":87088,"date":"2024-03-05T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87088"},"modified":"2024-03-02T07:49:03","modified_gmt":"2024-03-02T13:49:03","slug":"one-of-the-definitions-of-insanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87088","title":{"rendered":"One Of The Definitions Of Insanity&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8230;is, reportedly, doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If at first you build a $500 Million train and it comes in closer to $700M, so you build a &#8220;$1.4 Billion&#8221; train that comes in over $2 Billion, so you build a $2 Bllion dollar train that&#8217;s going to be well over $3 billion if they finish it at all&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.startribune.com\/cost-of-blue-line-extension-could-exceed-the-southwest-light-rail\/600346957\/?fbclid=IwAR1K8BI4d3UDa0fKPq9YJyeSNvOhFVsqxGmwatMi7NeEmS4gMk40bOQKqSw&amp;refresh=true\"><em>why the heck not <\/em>estimate an extension to an existing useless crack den of a train<\/a> for $2.9-$3.2 Billion and shoot for $4.5B by the time you&#8217;re done?<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;is, reportedly, doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. If at first you build a $500 Million train and it comes in closer to $700M, so you build a &#8220;$1.4 Billion&#8221; train that comes in over $2 Billion, so you build a $2 Bllion dollar train that&#8217;s going to [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trains-and-automobiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87088","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=87088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87089,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87088\/revisions\/87089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}