{"id":13387,"date":"2020-07-19T10:10:13","date_gmt":"2020-07-19T14:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=13387"},"modified":"2020-07-19T10:10:19","modified_gmt":"2020-07-19T14:10:19","slug":"how-did-we-get-here-wapo-explains-purple-line-fiasco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=13387","title":{"rendered":"How Did We Get Here? WaPo Explains Purple Line Fiasco"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Washington Post<\/em> Reporter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/trafficandcommuting\/purple-line-project-delays-cost-overruns-reveal-long-brewing-problems\/2020\/07\/18\/d3bda6ae-c620-11ea-b037-f9711f89ee46_story.html\">Katie Shaver has written<\/a> a truly excellent article on how the Purple Line ended up with $755 million in cost overruns and is now on the brink of failure. She\u2019s covered the issue for many years and this is the most comprehensive yet comprehensible explainer I\u2019ve seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post Reporter Katie Shaver has written a truly excellent article on how the Purple Line ended up with $755 million in cost overruns and is now on the brink of failure. She\u2019s covered the issue for many years and this is the most comprehensive yet comprehensible explainer I\u2019ve seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[2388],"class_list":["post-13387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-purple-line","tag-katherine-shaver"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-3tV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13388,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13387\/revisions\/13388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}