{"id":3478,"date":"2006-12-08T23:02:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-08T23:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3478"},"modified":"2017-12-12T10:18:40","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T16:18:40","slug":"civics-lesson-from-david-nicklaus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/08\/civics-lesson-from-david-nicklaus\/","title":{"rendered":"Civics Lesson from David Nicklaus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/business\/columnists.nsf\/davidnicklaus\/story\/8291451ABB31F8E38625723E000F40D4?OpenDocument\" target=\"_new\">says<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Brace yourselves, St. Louis. The convention industry is about to start beating the drum for another major expansion of the city&#8217;s meeting facilities.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no official plan yet, just a consultant&#8217;s report. But that&#8217;s how these things start. A consultant identifies a problem, and pretty soon officials get busy figuring out what they can build to solve it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And if that isn&#8217;t enough, I&#8217;d like to remind St. Louis that its football and hockey sports venues are now over a decade old, which means that they&#8217;re one championship and the attendent goodwill away from being obsolete enough to require publicly-funded replacement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He says: Brace yourselves, St. Louis. The convention industry is about to start beating the drum for another major expansion of the city&#8217;s meeting facilities. There&#8217;s no official plan yet, just a consultant&#8217;s report. But that&#8217;s how these things start. A consultant identifies a problem, and pretty soon officials get busy figuring out what they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-st-louis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3478","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=3478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18396,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3478\/revisions\/18396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}