{"id":772,"date":"2011-09-16T09:00:17","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T16:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lincolnhighwayassoc.org\/news\/?p=772"},"modified":"2011-10-29T13:12:49","modified_gmt":"2011-10-29T20:12:49","slug":"coburn-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lincolnhighwayassoc.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/16\/coburn-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Coburn: LH Roadside Museum a waste of federal money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma (R) blasted federal funding for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lhhc.org\/roadside.asp\">Lincoln Highway Roadside Museum<\/a> in Pennsylvania as an example of wasteful spending. Olga Herbert, executive director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lhhc.org\/\">Lincoln Highway Heritage Corridor<\/a>, pointed out that the museum has had a positive economic benefit in the region, plus it was completed almost a decade ago.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcall.com\/news\/nationworld\/pennsylvania\/mc-pa-transportation-funding-projects-20110915,0,1850631.story\">Enhancement in eye of beholder<\/a>, Colby Itkowitz, <i>The Morning Call<\/i> (Allentown, Pa.), September 15, 2011\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma (R) blasted federal funding for the Lincoln Highway Roadside Museum in Pennsylvania as an example&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pennsylvania","post-archive"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lincolnhighwayassoc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lincolnhighwayassoc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lincolnhighwayassoc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lincolnhighwayassoc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lincolnhighwayassoc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lincolnhighwayassoc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":775,"href":"https:\/\/www.lincolnhighwayassoc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions\/775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lincolnhighwayassoc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lincolnhighwayassoc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lincolnhighwayassoc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}