{"id":2393,"date":"2005-06-17T21:04:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-17T21:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2393"},"modified":"2018-06-01T13:24:44","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T18:24:44","slug":"excellent-day-to-use-tax-money-to-prop-up-sports-franchises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/06\/17\/excellent-day-to-use-tax-money-to-prop-up-sports-franchises\/","title":{"rendered":"Excellent Day to Use Tax Money to Prop Up Sports Franchises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <i>St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/i> and its columnists have chosen an excellent day to <a href=\"http:\/\/stlbrianj.blogspot.com\/2005\/06\/st-louis-should-throw-good-money-after.html\" target=\"_new\">expound on the need for tax money incentives to sports teams<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While St. Louis city streets <a href=\"http:\/\/kmox.com\/news\/article.php?id=16665\" target=\"_new\">collapse<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>St. Louis street crews are working to repair a sinkhole that was nearly big enough to swallow a car. City Streets Director Jim Suelman says the hole on Memorial Drive near the Old Cathedral is about five feet in diameter and nearly a foot deep.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Collapsing streets, schools skating the edge of their accreditation, but hey, great sports venues for the suburbanites to enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>(Submitted to the Outside the Beltway <a href=\"http:\/\/www.outsidethebeltway.com\/archives\/10992\" target=\"_new\">Traffic Jam<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Louis Post-Dispatch and its columnists have chosen an excellent day to expound on the need for tax money incentives to sports teams. While St. Louis city streets collapse: St. Louis street crews are working to repair a sinkhole that was nearly big enough to swallow a car. City Streets Director Jim Suelman says [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-st-louis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393","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=2393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19951,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2393\/revisions\/19951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}