{"id":521,"date":"2006-08-01T08:24:33","date_gmt":"2006-08-01T13:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=521"},"modified":"2006-08-15T21:20:57","modified_gmt":"2006-08-16T02:20:57","slug":"boon-or-boondoggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=521","title":{"rendered":"Boon or Boondoggle?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiamn.com\/mdn\/index.php?sect_rank=1&#038;story_id=206737\">This story<\/a> from the Messabi Daily hails the billions of federal dollars about to be spent on new energy production on the Iron Range. I have <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=451\">serious doubts<\/a> about the project.<\/p>\n<p>I notice that its chief promoter is using the current heat wave to further justify his plan. Well, I&#8217;m glad when the heat wave prompts us to take things like global warming seriously but I&#8217;m not so pleased to hear it used to promote wasteful spending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story from the Messabi Daily hails the billions of federal dollars about to be spent on new energy production on the Iron Range&#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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521"}],"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=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}