{"id":6028,"date":"2012-02-17T10:08:40","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T15:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=6028"},"modified":"2012-02-17T10:08:40","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T15:08:40","slug":"rogers-viking-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=6028","title":{"rendered":"Roger&#8217;s Viking Stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not the only one who rolled their eyes when I saw our Senator Reinert pitch a Vikings Stadium in Duluth. I guess like Dr. Dixon Roger likes to dream big. My eyes weren&#8217;t the only ones rolling. I got the following email about Roger&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/event\/article\/id\/223151\/publisher_ID\/36\/\">repitch<\/a> today in the Trib: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 5:31 AM, ********** wrote:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;C&#8217;mon, man! My sides are aching, you have to knock it off, you are killing me! Best one I have heard in a long, long time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So, instead of having 5,000 people in the state that have to drive 2 1\/2 hours to the game, we have 62,000 people that have to drive 2 1\/2 hours to the game&#8230;.OK.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There were some positive comments but even most of those ended with a &#8220;won&#8217;t happen but its fun to dream.&#8221; Best comment was from someone who asked what would they do with the stadium when not used for the few home football games?<\/p>\n<p>Ever notice how Roger drops his service in the Reserve every chance he gets?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To which I replied:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I saw the graphical illustration of how the Arena would look out at Morgan Park in the DNT and it showed a train station with tracks leading to it. That&#8217;s when I realized your 62,000 Minneapolitans were supposed to head on up to Duluth on the Northstar. That&#8217;d be one hell of a long train. <\/p>\n<p>Harry<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not the only one who rolled their eyes when I saw our Senator Reinert pitch a Vikings Stadium in Duluth. I guess like&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6028"}],"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=6028"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6086,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6028\/revisions\/6086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}