{"id":4301,"date":"2008-03-14T16:48:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-14T16:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4301"},"modified":"2017-11-13T13:46:05","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T19:46:05","slug":"the-city-is-backsliding-backsliding-the-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/14\/the-city-is-backsliding-backsliding-the-city\/","title":{"rendered":"The City Is Backsliding, Backsliding the City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How many &#8220;signs&#8221; of the city of St. Louis&#8217;s Renaissance can you dispel at once?  Well, at least <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/business\/stories.nsf\/story\/4C1B061125B76A258625740C000DA944?OpenDocument\" target=\"_blank\">two<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>One:<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A deal to bring Centene Corp.&#8217;s $250 million headquarters to downtown St. Louis is on shaky ground.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><b>Two:<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Centene&#8217;s development is supposed to be inside Ballpark Village, a seven-block entertainment and retail district that city leaders hope will be a cornerstone of downtown revitalization. It&#8217;s also uncertain when construction will begin on the $387 million first phase of Ballpark Village, co-developed by the St. Louis Cardinals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Obviously, this will require a futile gesture on the part of the city, say a couple more million dollars of tax money, so the politicians and their unelected directorate of the expensive can protect their phoney baloney jobs.  If you don&#8217;t mind my mixing pop culture references.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many &#8220;signs&#8221; of the city of St. Louis&#8217;s Renaissance can you dispel at once? Well, at least two. One: A deal to bring Centene Corp.&#8217;s $250 million headquarters to downtown St. Louis is on shaky ground. Two: Centene&#8217;s development is supposed to be inside Ballpark Village, a seven-block entertainment and retail district that city [&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-4301","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\/4301","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=4301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17582,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4301\/revisions\/17582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}