{"id":492,"date":"2006-07-24T16:57:35","date_gmt":"2006-07-24T21:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=492"},"modified":"2006-08-06T05:27:46","modified_gmt":"2006-08-06T10:27:46","slug":"more-on-highway-53","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=492","title":{"rendered":"More on Highway 53"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/462\/story\/569947.html\">From today&#8217;s Strib (Minneapolis Star Tribune)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some Highlights<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;the Minnesota Department of Transportation says it can&#8217;t use most of that windfall until 2012, because the agency is so short of money it can&#8217;t fix roads that are far busier and congested.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Labeled pork by critics, congressional earmarking has mushroomed in recent years. Last year&#8217;s $286 billion transportation bill contained $24 billion for more than 6,000 named projects. A similar bill in the mid-1980s contained 102 earmarks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From today&#8217;s Strib (Minneapolis Star Tribune) Some Highlights &#8220;the Minnesota Department of Transportation says it can&#8217;t use most of that windfall until 2012, because&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boondoggles","category-oberstar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}