{"id":8964,"date":"2013-01-03T16:04:44","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T22:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8964"},"modified":"2013-01-03T16:04:44","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T22:04:44","slug":"38-studios-curt-schillings-crony-capitalism-debacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8964","title":{"rendered":"38 Studios: Curt Schilling&#8217;s Crony Capitalism Debacle"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling, an iconic figure in New England after\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2004_American_League_Championship_Series\">anchoring a historic playoff comeback<\/a> which ended a legendary 86-year title drought,\u00a0founded 38 Studios near the end of his baseball career in the hopes of becoming a big shot in the intensely competitive\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Massively_multiplayer_online_game\">multi-player<\/a> gaming world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/reasontv\/2013\/01\/03\/38-studioscurt-schillingri-crony-capital\">38 Studios: Curt Schilling&#8217;s Crony Capitalism Debacle &#8211; Reason.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Using his bully pulpit as both\u00a0governor and chairman of the Rhode Island Economic Devlopment Corporation (RIEDC), a quasi-public agency whose mission is to\u00a0promote business in the state, Carcieri pushed hard for 38 Studios to receive a $75 million taxpayer-guaranteed loan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling, an iconic figure in New England after\u00a0anchoring a historic playoff comeback which ended a legendary 86-year title drought,\u00a0founded 38 Studios near the end of his baseball career in the hopes of becoming a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=8964\">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":[6],"tags":[661],"class_list":["post-8964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-gaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}