{"id":4136,"date":"2006-07-16T13:34:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-16T17:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/?p=4136"},"modified":"2021-06-09T13:36:33","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T17:36:33","slug":"whose-lane-is-it-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2006\/07\/16\/whose-lane-is-it-anyway\/","title":{"rendered":"Whose Lane is It Anyway?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/newsbug.gif?resize=65%2C20&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"65\" height=\"20\">&nbsp; &nbsp; Here&#8217;s a fun little tidbit I found in the news.  Our government is not only selling us down the river, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20060715\/ap_on_re_us\/highways_for_sale;_ylt=AruQKOc349veI5Twkzb8kEms0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3MjBwMWtkBHNlYwM3MTg-\">they&#8217;re selling our toll roads and bridges to foreign companies<\/a>.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; This even hits close to home:<blockquote>Few people know that the tolls from the U.S. side of the tunnel between Detroit and Windsor, Canada, go to a subsidiary of an Australian company &#8212; which also owns a bridge in Alabama.<\/blockquote>&nbsp; &nbsp; My parents complain about buying foreign cars.  Wait till they find out they&#8217;re driving on foreign roads!\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Here&#8217;s a fun little tidbit I found in the news. Our government is not only selling us down the river, they&#8217;re selling our toll roads and bridges to foreign companies.&nbsp; &nbsp; This even hits close to home: Few &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2006\/07\/16\/whose-lane-is-it-anyway\/\">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":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4136"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4138,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4136\/revisions\/4138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}