{"id":1934,"date":"2005-02-08T21:06:00","date_gmt":"2005-02-08T21:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1934"},"modified":"2018-07-19T06:46:36","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T11:46:36","slug":"1934","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/08\/1934\/","title":{"rendered":"Misleading Headline of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/state\/feb05\/299883.asp\" target=\"_new\">End to Amtrak funding unpopular<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Wisconsin&#8217;s top transportation official Monday blasted President Bush&#8217;s budget proposal to eliminate all federal funding for Amtrak.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it stinks,&#8221; state Transportation Secretary Frank Busalacchi said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Who joins this apparatchik in bemoaning the loss of federal funding for a railway used by a few but employing many?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Similar comments came from Amtrak management, the National Association of Railroad Passengers and the United Transportation Union, which represents Amtrak conductors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, yeah, the <i>cool<\/i> kids.<\/p>\n<p>A more accurate headline more likely would have been <b>End to Amtrak funding met with general apathy by majority<\/b>, but that hardly tells <i>Journal-Sentinel<\/i> readers what to think, ainna?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>End to Amtrak funding unpopular: Wisconsin&#8217;s top transportation official Monday blasted President Bush&#8217;s budget proposal to eliminate all federal funding for Amtrak. &#8220;I think it stinks,&#8221; state Transportation Secretary Frank Busalacchi said. Who joins this apparatchik in bemoaning the loss of federal funding for a railway used by a few but employing many? Similar comments [&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-1934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934","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=1934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20587,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1934\/revisions\/20587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}