{"id":128059,"date":"2015-09-18T00:07:23","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T06:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/18\/laurel-leaves-and-municipal-debt.html"},"modified":"2015-09-18T10:30:38","modified_gmt":"2015-09-18T16:30:38","slug":"laurel-leaves-and-municipal-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/18\/laurel-leaves-and-municipal-debt.html","title":{"rendered":"Laurel Leaves and Municipal Debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You would think that the lessons of the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles would have been taken to heart. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stupidevilbastard.com\/2015\/09\/the-remains-of-olympics-past\/\">http:\/\/stupidevilbastard.com\/2015\/09\/the-remains-of-olympics-past\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Aside from the lesson that &quot;Pastels are cool&quot; and &quot;Flextime schedules alleviate freeway crowding,&quot;  the &#39;84 Olympics in LA taught the lesson that you can run a pretty reasonable global sporting event if you already have venues you are willing to use, rather than building lots of massive sports arenas that will then slowly decay alongside your municipal credit rating.<\/p>\n<p>The Olympics are an amazing event, and I would hate to see them end. But the pressure to use them as a huge and pointless infrastructure construction project, driven by the IOC&#39;s demands of candidate venues, is rapidly making them an obsolete way to build civic pride and national fame, let alone celebrate the glory of amateur sports.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style='text-align:center'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6195731347092292849\/6195731350907893138'><img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-3MDqnP7Fq2E\/Vfuo1ladtZI\/AAAAAAADYvQ\/mkCgp6a4iZY\/coliseum-1984-olympics-1%255B1%255D.jpg?imgmax=660' style='max-width:650px;' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<a href='' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url();'><\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/MZ2twp8cY6i'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You would think that the lessons of the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles would have been taken to heart. http:\/\/stupidevilbastard.com\/2015\/09\/the-remains-of-olympics-past\/ Aside from the lesson that &quot;Pastels are cool&quot; and &quot;Flextime schedules alleviate freeway crowding,&quot; the &#39;84 Olympics in LA taught the lesson that you can run a pretty reasonable global sporting event if you already &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/18\/laurel-leaves-and-municipal-debt.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Laurel Leaves and Municipal Debt&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":128060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,67,376],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-sports","category-taxing-spending"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/coliseum-1984-olympics-15B15D.jpgimgmax=660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28712,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/31\/olympics-stuff-from-2012-07-30.html","url_meta":{"origin":128059,"position":0},"title":"Olympics stuff from 2012-07-30","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 31-Jul-12 8:54am","format":false,"excerpt":"Some G+ posts I made on Olympics topics yesterday: NBC is getting a wee bit sensitive to Olympic coverage criticism\u00a0- Including getting a journalist critic bumped from Twitter. 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