{"id":2454874,"date":"2020-02-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-22T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=321361"},"modified":"2020-02-24T12:33:31","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T19:33:31","slug":"take-aspen-public-all-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/take-aspen-public-all-of-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Take Aspen public \u2014 all of it"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/02\/facebook-thumbnail-1200.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The kerfuffle over programming at Aspen \u201cPublic\u201d Radio inspires me to recommend that City Council confiscate all retail and hospitality businesses in Aspen. Run them the \u201cpublic\u201d way: by a committee of the loudest mouths trolling public meetings, demanding stuff without offering to pay for it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Why should City Market and Clark\u2019s offer the foods that people select and pay for with their own money? Why should Poppycocks serve dishes selected by people spending their own money? No! Let the city run all the businesses like the good socialists they are and offer only what mobs demand but don\u2019t shell out their own money to pay for it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Maurice Emmer<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Aspen<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/take-aspen-public-all-of-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The kerfuffle over programming at Aspen \u201cPublic\u201d Radio inspires me to recommend that City Council confiscate all retail and hospitality businesses in Aspen. Run them the \u201cpublic\u201d way: by a committee of the loudest mouths trolling public meetings, demanding stuff without offering to pay for it. Why should City Market and Clark\u2019s offer the foods [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2454874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 14:04:41","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2454874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2454946,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454874\/revisions\/2454946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2454874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2454874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2454874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}