{"id":328,"date":"2004-06-29T06:13:09","date_gmt":"2004-06-29T06:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=328"},"modified":"2004-06-29T06:13:09","modified_gmt":"2004-06-29T06:13:09","slug":"senator_kohl_spends_some_time_on_baseball_issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=328","title":{"rendered":"Senator Kohl spends some time on baseball issues&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A13386-2004Jun28.html\">Steve Fainaru continues his series<\/a> on the monopoly that is baseball, including Bud Selig&#8217;s all powerful role in the game and public financing of stadiums.  Today&#8217;s article includes quotes from Senator Herb Kohl (D-Wis) regarding a potential baseball team in Washington, DC (nice to see the Senator spending time on important issues&#8230;.)<br \/>\nI continue to be amazed that it took a newspaper 700 miles from Wisconsin, The Washington Post, to write this series on the fleecing of taxpayers.  Perhaps former Governor Tommy Thompson helped out &#8211; he&#8217;s quoted in the articles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Fainaru continues his series on the monopoly that is baseball, including Bud Selig&#8217;s all powerful role in the game and public financing of stadiums. Today&#8217;s article includes quotes from Senator Herb Kohl (D-Wis) regarding a potential baseball team in Washington, DC (nice to see the Senator spending time on important issues&#8230;.) I continue to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}