{"id":4053,"date":"2010-07-13T22:06:29","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T02:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=4053"},"modified":"2010-07-13T22:06:29","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T02:06:29","slug":"arlington-that-free-spending-socialist-utopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2010\/07\/13\/arlington-that-free-spending-socialist-utopia\/","title":{"rendered":"Arlington, that Free-Spending Socialist Utopia . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>just had its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arlnow.com\/2010\/07\/13\/arlington-stays-in-the-financial-worlds-good-graces\/\">3 x AAA bond rating re-affirmed<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For the tenth straight year, Arlington has scored a financial \u00e2\u20ac\u0153triple-triple.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d All three major bond rating agencies have just affirmed Arlington\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s AAA bond rating, the highest rating available.<\/p>\n<p>[ . . . ]<\/p>\n<p>Arlington is one of only 35 counties across the country that has a triple AAA rating. It allows the county to borrow money at the lowest possible rates.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, it&#8217;s not lost on me that I&#8217;ve roundly criticized the bond-rating agencies elsewhere, but if you&#8217;re a relatively small county that can manage to convince all three that you&#8217;re doing it that well? \u00c2\u00a0You&#8217;re doing something right.<\/p>\n<p>Arlington isn&#8217;t perfect, but seriously, if the world had our problems, it would be a better place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>just had its 3 x AAA bond rating re-affirmed: For the tenth straight year, Arlington has scored a financial \u00e2\u20ac\u0153triple-triple.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d All three major bond rating agencies have just affirmed Arlington\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s AAA bond rating, the highest rating available. [ . . . ] Arlington is one of only 35 counties across the country that has a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy","category-virginia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4054,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4053\/revisions\/4054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}