{"id":67537,"date":"2018-07-31T06:12:06","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T11:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67537"},"modified":"2018-07-31T06:12:06","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T11:12:06","slug":"amateur-hour-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67537","title":{"rendered":"Amateur Hour.  Forever."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is what happens when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twincities.com\/2018\/07\/25\/st-paul-forgives-only-loan-made-under-failed-construction-program\/\">amateurs try to play real estate speculator<\/a>.\u00a0 The City\u2019s job is to provide police and fire protection, safe water, sanitary sewer, serviceable streets.<\/p>\n<p>Normally, I\u2019d say \u201cStick to what you\u2019re good at\u201d but with the St. Paul City Council . . . .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Saint Paul City Council are sort of like the 1980 Tampa Bay Buccaneers of politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: This is what happens when amateurs try to play real estate speculator.\u00a0 The City\u2019s job is to provide police and fire protection, safe water, sanitary sewer, serviceable streets. Normally, I\u2019d say \u201cStick to what you\u2019re good at\u201d but with the St. Paul City Council . . . . The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-st-paul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67537","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=67537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67538,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67537\/revisions\/67538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}