{"id":1962,"date":"2009-04-28T17:37:02","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T22:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/65.175.102.14\/?p=1962"},"modified":"2013-06-14T14:14:32","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T19:14:32","slug":"bismarck-sports-a-shining-example-of-a-government-fix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=1962","title":{"rendered":"Bismarck sports a shining example of a &#8220;government fix&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bismarck-mandan.com\/images\/government_fix.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" border=\"0\" \/><\/center>I noticed this stunning piece of work at least a year ago in the federal building on 3rd and Rosser. Every time I walk past it I consider taking a photo and remarking on it. Naturally people with cameras taking pictures in or around the federal building make feds nervous these days, but I saw no harm in pulling out the cell phone camera for this one.<\/p>\n<p>This sign has been held on the wall by a piece of clear shipping tape for <b>at least a solid YEAR<\/b> now, and maybe two. I took this pic at a funky angle so the reflection on the clear tape would show you where it&#8217;s applied. Beautiful, ain&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>This is <b>exactly<\/b> the kind of thing you can expect whenever government promises to &#8220;fix&#8221; something. Right now I bet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601087&amp;sid=al89RU9gWof8&amp;refer=home\" target=\"_blank\">Chrysler<\/a> feels like they&#8217;ve got a big ol&#8217; piece of government tape strapping <b>them<\/b> to a wall too, don&#8217;t you think? General Motors can&#8217;t be far behind. So does the <a href=\"http:\/\/newmexicoindependent.com\/26011\/epa-pulls-the-plug-on-desert-rock-coal-fired-plant\" target=\"_blank\">first power plant<\/a> to find out that Obama was serious about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SMwBbl6RoIs\" target=\"_blank\">bankrupting the coal industry<\/a>, an industry that provides a lot of prosperity for North Dakota. And heaven forbid&#8230;our health care system after that.<\/p>\n<p>Hope\u2122! Change\u2122!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed this stunning piece of work at least a year ago in the federal building on 3rd and Rosser. Every time I walk past it I consider taking a photo and remarking on it. Naturally people with cameras taking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/?p=1962\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funnyunusual","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1963,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962\/revisions\/1963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckmandanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}