{"id":113,"date":"2004-05-14T17:04:16","date_gmt":"2004-05-15T00:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/?p=113"},"modified":"2004-05-14T17:04:16","modified_gmt":"2004-05-15T00:04:16","slug":"porn-and-liberty-bonds-both-hard-to-come-by-in-times-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/?p=113","title":{"rendered":"Porn and Liberty Bonds, both hard to come by in Times Square."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <i>Times<\/i> reports that financing has been secured for their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcspace.com\/architects\/piano\/NYT\/index_a.htm\">new building<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/05\/13\/nyregion\/13building.html\">Times Square<\/a>, but apparently it won&#8217;t be an extended journey on the government gravy train that funded the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.villagevoice.com\/issues\/0225\/moses.php\">site acquisition<\/a> (and this was a deal that raised truly bipartisan <a href=\"http:\/\/www.townhall.com\/columnists\/michellemalkin\/printmm20030718.shtml\">hackles<\/a>, though of course the freepers couldn&#8217;t help but make jabs to the effect that liberals weren&#8217;t adequately outraged). Developer Bruce Ratner (who is busy buying some really <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gothamist.com\/archives\/2004\/05\/14\/bruce_ratner_and_the_nyc_real_estate_bubble.php\">expensive apartments<\/a> in Brooklyn this week) had requested that the building be funded in part by Liberty Bonds, further proof that real estate developers would piss on any grave they can to make a buck, but was denied, forcing him to go elsewhere (GMAC, specifically). Now, you can attribute this to good government oversight, or wonder suspiciously if there was a little quid pro quo going on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.downtownexpress.com\/de_46\/gehryinschool.html\">elsewhere<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Times reports that financing has been secured for their new building in Times Square, but apparently it won&#8217;t be an extended journey on the government gravy train that funded the site acquisition (and this was a deal that raised truly bipartisan hackles, though of course the freepers couldn&#8217;t help but make jabs to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}