{"id":3288,"date":"2006-08-21T03:15:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-21T03:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3288"},"modified":"2013-05-04T06:12:52","modified_gmt":"2013-05-04T11:12:52","slug":"unspoken-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/21\/unspoken-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Unspoken Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cardinals ticket sales are down, and they&#8217;ve got <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/entertainment\/stories.nsf\/visitstlouis\/story\/84FC4D323C34BC16862571CE006F1020?OpenDocument\" target=\"_new\">a million theories why<\/a>, but none of the ones enumerated in the story match my expectation.<\/p>\n<p>Here are two things that have alienated some of the out-of-town fan base:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A publicly funded stadium.  Remember the signs that said &#8220;We&#8217;ll build a stadium when the Cardinals build highways&#8221;?  The people who put them in their yards and on their farms do.<\/p>\n<li>The Cardinals bought KTRS and moved their broadcasts to the underpowered AM station and a &#8220;network&#8221; that leaves the radio coverage spotty <i>in St. Louis<\/i>, much less within driving range of a weekend in St. Louis.<\/blockquote>\n<p>No, certainly the dive in tourism traffic comes from gas prices and the rumor that every game is a sell-out.  Good luck with continuing delusions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cardinals ticket sales are down, and they&#8217;ve got a million theories why, but none of the ones enumerated in the story match my expectation. Here are two things that have alienated some of the out-of-town fan base: A publicly funded stadium. Remember the signs that said &#8220;We&#8217;ll build a stadium when the Cardinals build highways&#8221;? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3288","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=3288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12706,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3288\/revisions\/12706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}