{"id":121206,"date":"2009-12-31T15:09:31","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T20:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2010653043_thealaskanwayviaductand520bridgepotential.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2009-12-31T15:09:31","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T20:09:31","slug":"the-alaskan-way-viaduct-and-520-bridge-potential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/121206","title":{"rendered":"The Alaskan Way Viaduct and 520 bridge potential"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Wishing and hoping<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What an appropriate time for Mike Moore and David Freiboth to present their wish list in their Dec. 29 guest commentary \u201cLet\u2019s move forward on 520, viaduct jobs\u201d [Opinion].<\/p>\n<p>Obviously they have never progressed beyond the concept of, as kids, sitting on Santa\u2019s lap and asking for what they want for Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>Brings to mind what my grandpa used to say: if wishes were horses, then beggars would ride.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Howard Almquist, Shoreline<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wishing and hoping What an appropriate time for Mike Moore and David Freiboth to present their wish list in their Dec. 29 guest commentary \u201cLet\u2019s move forward on 520, viaduct jobs\u201d [Opinion]. Obviously they have never progressed beyond the concept of, as kids, sitting on Santa\u2019s lap and asking for what they want for Christmas. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}