{"id":22572,"date":"2011-09-10T05:30:32","date_gmt":"2011-09-10T11:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/10\/unblogged-bits-sat-10-sep-11-0530.html"},"modified":"2011-09-10T05:30:32","modified_gmt":"2011-09-10T11:30:32","slug":"unblogged-bits-sat-10-sep-11-0530","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/10\/unblogged-bits-sat-10-sep-11-0530.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Sat. 10-Sep-11 0530)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …. <\/p>\n
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  1. REPORT: As Their States\u2019 Bridges And Roads Crumble, GOP Leaders Remain Opposed To Infrastructure Investment | ThinkProgress<\/a> – If a bridge collapses, then the free market will enable people to choose a different bridge to get to their destination. That’s the American way!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …. REPORT: As Their States\u2019 Bridges And Roads Crumble, GOP Leaders Remain Opposed To Infrastructure Investment | ThinkProgress – If a bridge collapses, then the free market will enable people to choose a different bridge to get to their destination. … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Sat. 10-Sep-11 0530)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":38386,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/06\/the-new-bay-bridge-in-photos.html","url_meta":{"origin":22572,"position":0},"title":"The new Bay Bridge in photos","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 6-Aug-13 5:29pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Some gorgeous pictures of the construction of the new eastern span of the San Francisco Bay Bridge. \u00a0I've always thought that part of the BB was kind of ugly, and the new part looks to be gorgeous (as well as a lot more seismically safe). 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