{"id":70623,"date":"2015-04-22T07:00:02","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T12:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=70623"},"modified":"2015-04-22T13:12:39","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T18:12:39","slug":"minot-residents-turn-down-rec-cntr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=70623","title":{"rendered":"Minot residents turn down rec cntr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/MinotRecCtr2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-70672\" alt=\"MinotRecCtr2\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/MinotRecCtr2-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/MinotRecCtr2-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/MinotRecCtr2-131x175.jpg 131w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/MinotRecCtr2.jpg 412w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>MINOT, N.D. (AP) \u2013 Minot residents by a 2-to-1 margin have said no to an $88 million aquatic and recreation center.<\/p>\n<p>Unofficial results from Tuesday\u2019s election show that only 33 percent of the 5,650 voters supported a tax system amendment to pay for the 450,000-square foot facility. City residents would have paid the highest sales tax in the state, but their property taxes would have been lower.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed Minot Aquatics and Recreation Center would have had a water park, a 50-meter competition pool and a warm water therapy pool. It also would have included a multisport turf area, a 400-meter track, an indoor playground, a child care center, a senior citizen event area and fitness equipment.<\/p>\n<p>Outspoken opponent Jim Soltis told the Minot Daily News that residents feel they\u2019re taxed enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MINOT, N.D. (AP) \u2013 Minot residents by a 2-to-1 margin have said no to an $88 million aquatic and recreation center. Unofficial results from Tuesday\u2019s election show that only 33 percent of the 5,650 voters supported a tax system amendment to pay for the 450,000-square foot facility. City residents would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":70671,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70623"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70674,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70623\/revisions\/70674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}