{"id":4573,"date":"2008-08-31T12:08:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-31T12:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4573"},"modified":"2017-11-10T07:23:33","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T13:23:33","slug":"poverty-and-doomsday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/31\/poverty-and-doomsday\/","title":{"rendered":"Poverty and Doomsday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a four color insert into the <i>Suburban Journals<\/i> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metrostlouis.org\/crossroads\/default.asp\" target=\"_blank\">online here<\/a>), Metro continues its apocalypse now threats should it not receive a new tax-backed slush fund.<\/p>\n<p>No service west of 270!  No Metrolink trains after 8pm (spooking the suburbanites who would go to a ballgame, I suppose)!<\/p>\n<p>Take heart, citizens!  Even if you don&#8217;t pass the taxes, <i>not one executive phony-baloney job will be lost<\/i> and <i>no budget will be spared on preparing promotional items for future tax increases<\/i>!<\/p>\n<p>Metro has its priorities, after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a four color insert into the Suburban Journals (online here), Metro continues its apocalypse now threats should it not receive a new tax-backed slush fund. No service west of 270! No Metrolink trains after 8pm (spooking the suburbanites who would go to a ballgame, I suppose)! Take heart, citizens! Even if you don&#8217;t pass [&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-4573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4573","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=4573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17414,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4573\/revisions\/17414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}