{"id":8025,"date":"2003-07-26T09:42:25","date_gmt":"2003-07-26T14:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2003\/07\/26\/football-and-nimby\/"},"modified":"2003-07-26T09:42:25","modified_gmt":"2003-07-26T14:42:25","slug":"football-and-nimby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2003\/07\/football-and-nimby\/","title":{"rendered":"Football and NIMBY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post\">Here is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/mld\/kansascity\/sports\/6387904.htm\">story<\/a> about the Franciscan Sisters of Christ the King who have decided not to charge rent for a football field on their property.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Why the change of heart for the nuns?<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">&#8220;They say they have no money,&#8221; said Sister Mary Bonaventure, the corporation treasurer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">&#8220;We can try it for this season and see how it goes. We&#8217;ve never had a football game in our back yard. Anybody who might have a football game literally in their back yard would be concerned.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post\">You would think that someone wanted to put up a nuclear power plant or some chemical plant.  I just think that it is funny that someone would be <i>concerned<\/i> about a football game in their backyard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">Sister Bonaventure isn&#8217;t sure whether the nuns will attend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"articles\">&#8220;Maybe that would shake up the opposing team,&#8221; she said with a laugh. &#8220;We&#8217;ll see about that.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a story about the Franciscan Sisters of Christ the King who have decided not to charge rent for a football field on their property. Why the change of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}