{"id":27974,"date":"2021-03-30T15:22:49","date_gmt":"2021-03-30T20:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=27974"},"modified":"2021-03-30T15:22:49","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T20:22:49","slug":"local-debacle-makes-the-news-in-england-for-some-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/30\/local-debacle-makes-the-news-in-england-for-some-reason\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Debacle Makes The News In England For Some Reason"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailystar.co.uk\/news\/latest-news\/inside-16bn-ghost-town-abandoned-23822702\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Inside the $1.6bn ghost town abandoned in 2008 &#8211; before anyone moved in<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Ozarks region of Missouri was set to become home to a prosperous town featuring a shopping mall, a 390-room hotel, the country&#8217;s second-largest indoor water park &#8211; and dozens of castle-like townhouses.<\/p>\n<p>But the $1.6bn investment went to waste as the town remains uninhabited almost 15 years later.<\/p>\n<p>The Indian Ridge Resort was hit hard by the 2008 financial crisis hit; resulting in defaulted loans and a halt in the construction work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As someone who watches the bankruptcy auctions from time to time, I still see a lot of those lots coming available for only the past taxes due.<\/p>\n<p>I am not sure why this is news in England today for some reason.  Perhaps the new deadly COVID variants are not as bad as advertised.  Like COVID itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inside the $1.6bn ghost town abandoned in 2008 &#8211; before anyone moved in: The Ozarks region of Missouri was set to become home to a prosperous town featuring a shopping mall, a 390-room hotel, the country&#8217;s second-largest indoor water park &#8211; and dozens of castle-like townhouses. But the $1.6bn investment went to waste as the [&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-27974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27974","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=27974"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27976,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27974\/revisions\/27976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}