{"id":1796,"date":"2004-12-23T19:11:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-23T19:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1796"},"modified":"2018-07-28T15:49:17","modified_gmt":"2018-07-28T20:49:17","slug":"1796","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/23\/1796\/","title":{"rendered":"Euphemism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <i>St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/i>, high-priced law firm <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/stlouiscitycounty\/story\/4AE22825C0A0B9D086256F73001737B6?OpenDocument&#038;Headline=Bryan+Cave+will+stay+downtown\" target=\"_new\">Bryan Cave gets a loan from the city<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The law firm still will receive a forgivable loan of $300,000 from the city to offset some of the cost of expanding and renovating its offices.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To those of us outside of the public-private partnership working together to suck money from taxpayers for the betterment of the public-private partners, this sounds an awful like corporate welfare.  But it&#8217;s just a loan, the city insists, waving its hand to implant that thought into the mind of the weak or the inattentive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, high-priced law firm Bryan Cave gets a loan from the city: The law firm still will receive a forgivable loan of $300,000 from the city to offset some of the cost of expanding and renovating its offices. To those of us outside of the public-private partnership working together to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-st-louis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796","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=1796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20759,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796\/revisions\/20759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}