{"id":579,"date":"2009-08-10T17:04:28","date_gmt":"2009-08-10T22:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/?p=579"},"modified":"2009-08-10T19:17:27","modified_gmt":"2009-08-11T00:17:27","slug":"edgewater-hotel-stink-on-the-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/edgewater-hotel-stink-on-the-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Edgewater Hotel: Stink on the Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.madison.com\/post\/blogs\/rath\/461132\">This is horrifying<\/a>. Mayor Pave and the current crop of very pliant alders are trying to turn Madison into Springfield. Illinoiz, that is.<\/p>\n<p>It is a long post, but it is some of the best investigative journalism I&#8217;ve seen in years. Consider it your duty to democracy and in preserving the republic to read it, understand it, and bring the issue to your elected officials.<\/p>\n<p>And make certain to read all the way down into the comments section. The second entry (the really long one)  is from someone who was (is?) a reporter for one of the old Madison dailies. (I haven&#8217;t seen his name in a while, so he probably got caught in the downdraft of the print media). Quite an authoritarian rightist. And a scary one to boot.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, this Edgewater thing stinks to high heaven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edgewater Hotel developers subvert democracy with astroturf organizations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,5,20,12,8,13],"tags":[329,327,27,326,328,184,7,29,96],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-environment","category-greenwashers-greenwashing","category-madison-politics","category-places-that-suck","category-politics","tag-astroturf-organization","tag-bought-paid-for-politicians","tag-democracy","tag-edgewater-hotel","tag-jay-rath","tag-madison-wisconsin","tag-madison-wisconsin-politics","tag-mayor-pave","tag-subsidy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":591,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions\/591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urbanthoreau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}