{"id":2921,"date":"2008-07-24T05:00:03","date_gmt":"2008-07-24T10:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2921"},"modified":"2011-09-01T08:01:53","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T13:01:53","slug":"connected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2921","title":{"rendered":"Connected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Something I missed in the crush of events this past week: the north and south banks of the Mississippi are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xanga.com\/thedailydigital\/667211873\/item.html\">connected again<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"394\" src=\"http:\/\/projects.dot.state.mn.us\/35wbridge\/webcamimage\/recentWebcamImage.jpg\" width=\"578\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Image is from the <a href=\"http:\/\/projects.dot.state.mn.us\/35wbridge\/webcam.html\">MNDoT webcam<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t want to drive on it yet, naturally &#8211; but last Wednesday, the contractors did the final pour to connect the main segments of the northbound span.<\/p>\n<p>The southbound span should be getting connected any day now. Expect an angry column from Nick Coleman blaming Governor Pawlenty for the delay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something I missed in the crush of events this past week: the north and south banks of the Mississippi are connected again: Image is from the MNDoT webcam. You don&#8217;t want to drive on it yet, naturally &#8211; but last Wednesday, the contractors did the final pour to connect the main segments of the northbound [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,144],"tags":[154],"class_list":["post-2921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bridge-collapse","category-governor","tag-pawlenty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22595,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921\/revisions\/22595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}