{"id":36318,"date":"2013-05-14T06:22:21","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T11:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=36318"},"modified":"2013-05-14T06:22:21","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T11:22:21","slug":"and-here-you-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=36318","title":{"rendered":"And Here You Go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new Vikings stadium has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/politics\/ci_23235098\/vikings-verge-unveiling-final-stadium-design.v5\">unveiled<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>About a year after $500 million in public money was approved by the Minnesota Legislature for a new Vikings stadium, the curtain was pulled back Monday, May 13, to let the public see what the $975 million facility will look like.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/politics\/ci_23235098\/vikings-verge-unveiling-final-stadium-design.v5\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/extras.mnginteractive.com\/live\/media\/site569\/2013\/0513\/20130513__vikings%20stadium%20sunset.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"348\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The new design was unveiled at a 90-minute event Monday evening at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n<p>The building will be asymmetrical and multisided. The roof will slope to ensure snow doesn&#8217;t pile up atop it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It looks like a microwave that fell out of a truck on the freeway.<\/p>\n<p>But at least it&#8217;s being paid for by <del>electronic pull tabs<\/del> oops. \u00a0It&#8217;s going to be paid for out of your taxes.<\/p>\n<p>The least the\u00a0<em>Strib<\/em>, WCCO, KFAN and KSTP could do is give away some free tickets, since this is our &#8220;present&#8221; to them and their long-term viability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new Vikings stadium has been unveiled. About a year after $500 million in public money was approved by the Minnesota Legislature for a new Vikings stadium, the curtain was pulled back Monday, May 13, to let the public see what the $975 million facility will look like. The new design was unveiled at 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":[144,17,123,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-governor","category-minneapolis","category-taxes","category-the-rare-sports-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36318","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=36318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36319,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36318\/revisions\/36319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}