{"id":4399,"date":"2008-05-01T11:20:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T11:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4399"},"modified":"2017-11-09T10:20:50","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T16:20:50","slug":"candyman-the-return-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/01\/candyman-the-return-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Candyman: The Return Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After Matt Blunt&#8217;s term as Missouri governor, with its semi-austerity in cutting government programs unpopularly (some of which I chronicled on my old <a href=\"http:\/\/draftmattblunt2008.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Draft Matt Blunt<\/a> blog), it looks like 2009 will return to government business as usual.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/education\/story\/37D2E50C0B61164C8625743A0012357C?OpenDocument\" target=\"_blank\">Jay Nixon<\/a> will be your candyman:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On a gubernatorial campaign stop Monday at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon unveiled a plan that would allow Missouri students who start out at a community college to get a four-year degree without having to pay tuition along the way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, economics dictates that once everyone has a bachelor&#8217;s degree, the starting salaries for people with college degrees will diminish, squeezing the middle class in another fashion.  But this is government\/politics, not reality\/economics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Matt Blunt&#8217;s term as Missouri governor, with its semi-austerity in cutting government programs unpopularly (some of which I chronicled on my old Draft Matt Blunt blog), it looks like 2009 will return to government business as usual. Jay Nixon will be your candyman: On a gubernatorial campaign stop Monday at the University of Missouri-St. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-missouri","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4399","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=4399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17344,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4399\/revisions\/17344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}