{"id":2965,"date":"2006-02-21T01:54:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-21T01:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2965"},"modified":"2017-12-21T16:38:46","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T22:38:46","slug":"a-talent-for-pork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/21\/a-talent-for-pork\/","title":{"rendered":"A Talent for Pork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One more reason I am not voting for Jim Talent next election: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/stlouiscitycounty\/story\/DB5222284034A0478625711B00749EAE?OpenDocument\" target=\"_new\">he brings home the bacon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Just north of St. Louis, the nation&#8217;s two largest rivers merge at a spot that few people visit.<\/p>\n<p>That may be about to change.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Sen. Jim Talent, R-Mo., announced plans to introduce a bill that would provide a special federal designation for the 200-square-mile area around the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers that would be known as the Confluence National Heritage Corridor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is an extraordinary natural landmark and this designation is long overdue,&#8221; said Talent, of suburban St. Louis.<\/p>\n<p>The designation seeks federal funding for several conservation, heritage and recreational attractions that are part of an organization called Confluence Greenway.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Talent&#8217;s legacy:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Turned the Arch pink.\n<li>That Sudafed Protection bill he co-sponsored with DiFi.\n<li>The Confluence National Heritage Boondoggle.<\/ul>\n<p>And I thought it made a difference when I helped unseat Jean Carnahan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One more reason I am not voting for Jim Talent next election: he brings home the bacon. Just north of St. Louis, the nation&#8217;s two largest rivers merge at a spot that few people visit. That may be about to change. On Monday, Sen. Jim Talent, R-Mo., announced plans to introduce a bill that would [&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-2965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965","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=2965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18902,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965\/revisions\/18902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}