{"id":179736,"date":"2017-11-12T20:16:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T01:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/11\/12\/but-of-course-2\/"},"modified":"2017-11-12T20:16:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T01:16:00","slug":"but-of-course-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/11\/12\/but-of-course-2\/","title":{"rendered":"But of Course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the company Whitefish?<\/p>\n<p>It had only two employees, and then it got a $300 million contract to repair Puerto Rico&#8217;s electrical grid following the damage from hurricane Maria.<\/p>\n<p>They had ties to the Trump campaign and Interior Secretary Zinke. <\/p>\n<p>Well, one of their first jobs, a high power transmission line, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/energy-and-environment\/2017\/11\/9\/16630686\/massive-power-outage-puerto-rico-whitefish-blackout\">just failed, cutting power coverage from 40% to 18%<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So not a surprise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the company Whitefish? It had only two employees, and then it got a $300 million contract to repair Puerto Rico&#8217;s electrical grid following the damage from hurricane Maria. They had ties to the Trump campaign and Interior Secretary Zinke. Well, one of their first jobs, a high power transmission line, just failed, cutting power &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[365,513,671,368,505,588,374],"class_list":["post-179736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-business","tag-campaign-finance","tag-caribbean","tag-corruption","tag-disaster","tag-fail","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179736"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}