{"id":161,"date":"2004-06-18T11:24:55","date_gmt":"2004-06-18T18:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/?p=161"},"modified":"2004-06-18T11:24:55","modified_gmt":"2004-06-18T18:24:55","slug":"dolans-threaten-to-hire-foreigners-hilarty-ensures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/?p=161","title":{"rendered":"Dolans threaten to hire foreigners. Hilarty ensures."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Respecting the middling quality of their existing facility, and perhaps a belief that Midtown is not <i>Canadian<\/i> enough, Cablevision has apparently contracted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbb.ca\/home.htm\">Brisbin Brook Beynon<\/a>, regional specialists in &#8220;entertainment architecture,&#8221; to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/06\/18\/nyregion\/18garden.html\">spruce up the Garden<\/a>. Perhaps I&#8217;m being unfair those particular Canadians, but, boy, isn&#8217;t that the worst web site you have <i>ever<\/i> seen? They must save it all for the boards.<\/p>\n<p>The Dolans are promising to do all with private funds (which is interesting accounting; continuance of a 22-year tax exemption is considered &#8216;private&#8217; money?), and they want nothing in return. Of course that nothing could be expressed tangibly, in the form of nixing the flashy new stadium a few blocks west. You have to feel badly for the Dolans, though: a slice of monopoly on television in the New York region market and a near monopoly on large event spaces in Manhattan, and they <i>still<\/i> manage to lose money. Oh, well. I guess this is what you get when you complain about the hiring of Renzo Piano.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Respecting the middling quality of their existing facility, and perhaps a belief that Midtown is not Canadian enough, Cablevision has apparently contracted Brisbin Brook Beynon, regional specialists in &#8220;entertainment architecture,&#8221; to spruce up the Garden. Perhaps I&#8217;m being unfair those particular Canadians, but, boy, isn&#8217;t that the worst web site you have ever seen? They [&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-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","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=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missrepresentation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}