{"id":2519,"date":"2009-08-18T12:34:21","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T17:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2519"},"modified":"2009-08-18T12:34:21","modified_gmt":"2009-08-18T17:34:21","slug":"more-trainspotting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=2519","title":{"rendered":"More Trainspotting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A story from an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiamn.com\/articles\/2009\/08\/08\/your_views\/doc4a7e3aabdfc5b256023649.txt\">Iron Range newspaper <\/a>where they know something about boondoggles.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Midwest high-speed rail plan a boondoggle<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Heartland Institute It&#8217;s probably appropriate that the governors of eight Midwest states have just signed a deal to try to establish a regional high-speed rail system. <\/p>\n<p>The National Conference of State Legislatures says these states have a combined budget deficit of $28.1 billion this year, demonstrating the governors know a lot about losing money and soaking taxpayers, which is what citizens in these states can expect if their leaders&#8217; high-speed rail fantasies become reality.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A story from an Iron Range newspaper where they know something about boondoggles. Midwest high-speed rail plan a boondoggle Heartland Institute It&#8217;s probably appropriate&#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\/2519"}],"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=2519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}