{"id":2512,"date":"2009-08-16T21:24:54","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T02:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2512"},"modified":"2009-08-16T21:24:54","modified_gmt":"2009-08-17T02:24:54","slug":"paid-to-tell-you-what-you-want-to-hear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2512","title":{"rendered":"Paid to tell you what you want to hear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I take from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/event\/article\/id\/127905\/\">this story <\/a>that consultants, like the ones who advised us the Duluth Aquarium would be a big revenue generator, consultants can be counted on for one thing. They will tell you what you want to hear as long as they are paid enough. (In JCI&#8217;s case that meant recommending $300 million worth of spending and having JCI supervise the work) Boy, I&#8217;ll bet that made all the other consultants jealous. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I take from this story that consultants, like the ones who advised us the Duluth Aquarium would be a big revenue generator, consultants can&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}