{"id":583,"date":"2006-07-26T07:54:12","date_gmt":"2006-07-26T12:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/?p=583"},"modified":"2020-01-02T15:38:56","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T20:38:56","slug":"local-ferry-tale-now-in-print","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/local-ferry-tale-now-in-print\/","title":{"rendered":"Rochester Fast Ferry tale now in print"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Dickens, &#8220;novelist and mariner,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frontiernet.net\/~sulindhill\/20GonewtBreeze.htm\">has published a memoir about Rochester&#8217;s fast ferry<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dickens served as first mate on the ferry, which former Rochester mayor Bill Johnson claimed would stimulate our economy somehow &#8212; I guess by luring rich Canadians across Lake Ontario. And what does the city have to show for it, now? <a href=\"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/buh-bye-ferry-buh-bye\/\">An extra $20 million debt<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But never fear, our politicians have a new plan: a $230 million performing arts center <em>cum <\/em>underground bus terminal. Think of it as the fast ferry, only lots more expensive and we can&#8217;t sell it if it doesn&#8217;t work out. Also no rich Canadian angle.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve blogged about my distaste for the Renaissance Square idea several times since I started doing this in February; <a href=\"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/this-ones-about-rochesters-renaissance-square\/\">here&#8217;s my most recent post on the subject<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larry Dickens, &#8220;novelist and mariner,&#8221; has published a memoir about Rochester&#8217;s fast ferry. Dickens served as first mate on the ferry, which former Rochester mayor Bill Johnson claimed would stimulate our economy somehow &#8212; I guess by luring rich Canadians &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/local-ferry-tale-now-in-print\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[487,1202,67,87,66],"class_list":["post-583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rochester-new-york","tag-fast-ferry","tag-larry-dickens","tag-new-york","tag-renaissance-square","tag-rochester"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5913,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions\/5913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}