{"id":1632,"date":"2004-10-19T14:48:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-19T14:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1632"},"modified":"2018-07-31T08:07:25","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T13:07:25","slug":"1632","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/19\/1632\/","title":{"rendered":"Accidental Insight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Truer insight into the municipal mind was never gained than the following line from <a href=\"\" target=\"_new\">a column<\/a> in the <i>Shepherd Express<\/i>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> As strong feelings about preserving the City of Franklin&#8217;s natural areas clash with the need for a tax base to pay for the <b>amenities people need<\/b> to live there, the peaceful setting this southern Milwaukee County suburb is known for has been disrupted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yep, it&#8217;s not about an efficient, inobtrusive government and a low tax rate; it&#8217;s about the <i>amenities<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Municipal governments feel the need to compete with other municipal governments&#8217; water parks and whatnot, regardless of whether their tax bases can support such ongoing expenditures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Truer insight into the municipal mind was never gained than the following line from a column in the Shepherd Express: As strong feelings about preserving the City of Franklin&#8217;s natural areas clash with the need for a tax base to pay for the amenities people need to live there, the peaceful setting this southern Milwaukee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20898,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632\/revisions\/20898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}