{"id":965,"date":"2008-04-05T04:48:26","date_gmt":"2008-04-05T09:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/wp\/?p=965"},"modified":"2008-04-05T04:48:26","modified_gmt":"2008-04-05T09:48:26","slug":"youre-kidding-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=965","title":{"rendered":"You&#8217;re Kidding, Right?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael P. Lewis was the Project Director for the notorious Big Dig, a job which made him second only to disgraced chairman Matthew Amorello in the line of responsibility for all the failures of that disastrous project.<br \/>\nThose failures include a 500% markup in the cost, from $3 billion to $15 billion, and the death of a Jamaica Plain woman due to shoddy workmanship.<br \/>\nIn spite of this, the Turnpike Authority Retirement Board approved payment of an enhanced pension over 3 times the normal benefit:  $72,578 versus $23,000 a year.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/articles\/2008\/04\/05\/big_dig_officials_firing_led_to_windfall\/\" target=\"_blank\">Adding insult to injury<\/a>, Lewis is now employed as Rhode Island&#8217;s transportation secretary at $130,000 a year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael P. Lewis was the Project Director for the notorious Big Dig, a job which made him second only to disgraced chairman Matthew Amorello in the line of responsibility for all the failures of that disastrous project. Those failures include &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=965\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}