{"id":2253,"date":"2005-05-15T01:14:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-15T01:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2253"},"modified":"2018-06-08T16:41:30","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T21:41:30","slug":"government-and-developers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/15\/government-and-developers\/","title":{"rendered":"Government and Developers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Boots and Sabers, Owen&#8217;s done his homework to spell out the beginnings of a land grab wherein shady government officials working with developers and with local neighborhood associations will eventually run the middle class owners out of their neighborhood:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/index.php\/weblog\/comments_w_sidebars\/4674\/\" target=\"_new\">A Den of Thieves<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The worst part of the whole story is the sense I get that it&#8217;s not a vast conspiracy of long-range plans to incrementally drive the homeowners out, but rather that the government officials have <i>nothing else to do<\/i> but try a variety of approaches to meet their goals of stripping citizens&#8217; property rights.  Patience and not having to <i>live a freaking life while fighting city hall and its developer overlords<\/i> tip the balance of power from the citizens to those who live only to rule them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Boots and Sabers, Owen&#8217;s done his homework to spell out the beginnings of a land grab wherein shady government officials working with developers and with local neighborhood associations will eventually run the middle class owners out of their neighborhood: A Den of Thieves The worst part of the whole story is the sense [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-on-wisconsin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253","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=2253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20115,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253\/revisions\/20115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}