{"id":686,"date":"2004-02-26T06:07:47","date_gmt":"2004-02-26T11:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/02\/dc_mystery\/"},"modified":"2004-02-26T06:07:47","modified_gmt":"2004-02-26T11:07:47","slug":"dc_mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/02\/dc_mystery\/","title":{"rendered":"D.C. Mystery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington&#8217;s Metro transit system is gearing up to raise rates for the second time in two years &#8220;to help cover a shortfall between its revenue and expenses.&#8221;<br \/>\nWhy might there be a shortfall between revenue and expenses, you ask?  I don&#8217;t know.  The fact that parking lot attendants have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A7045-2004Feb25.html\">stolen untold millions<\/a> from the system <i>might<\/i> have something to do with it.<br \/>\nTo add insult to injury, Metro officials are refusing to release the auditor&#8217;s report on the thievery because &#8220;audits are not public documents.&#8221;<br \/>\nNice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/02\/dc_mystery\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to D.C. Mystery\"><p>Washington&#8217;s Metro transit system is gearing up to raise rates for the second time in two years &#8220;to help cover a shortfall between its revenue and expenses.&#8221; Why might there be a shortfall between revenue and expenses, you ask? I don&#8217;t know. The fact that parking lot attendants have stolen untold millions from the system [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-686","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}