{"id":629,"date":"2004-01-22T01:53:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-22T01:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=629"},"modified":"2018-08-09T15:50:38","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T20:50:38","slug":"629","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/01\/22\/629\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbecuing Your Own Pork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, the St. Louis Regional Convention and Sports Complex Authority that was formed in 1989 to build a megolithic publicly-funded dome stadium to lure a football team is still in business, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/News\/B67574137D7976EB86256E220018E336?OpenDocument&#038;Headline=Need+for+board+that+oversees+Dome+is+questioned++\" target=\"new\">even though its job was completed in 1995<\/a>.  It&#8217;s paying six figures to its members, maintaining a luxury suite in the <strike>Trans World<\/strike> <strike>Edward Jones<\/strike> <blink><font color=\"red\">Your Name Here!<\/font><\/blink> Dome, and setting itself up to be a gravy train for two more decades.<\/p>\n<p>What, you mean the vaunted <i><b>Civic Leaders<\/b><\/i> are in it to feather their own nests at the expense of the taxpayers?  I am shocked, shocked I tell you!<\/p>\n<p>How long until Richard &#8220;Il Dick&#8221; Gephardt can join in now that his small-potatoes, low-paying political career is over?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, the St. Louis Regional Convention and Sports Complex Authority that was formed in 1989 to build a megolithic publicly-funded dome stadium to lure a football team is still in business, even though its job was completed in 1995. It&#8217;s paying six figures to its members, maintaining a luxury suite in the Trans World Edward [&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-629","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\/629","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=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22360,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions\/22360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}