{"id":2053,"date":"2009-03-29T22:25:58","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T06:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=2053"},"modified":"2009-03-29T22:25:58","modified_gmt":"2009-03-30T06:55:58","slug":"superferry-sails-away-leaving-hawaii-with-bruises-and-the-tab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=2053","title":{"rendered":"Superferry sails away leaving Hawai&#8217;i with bruises and the tab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starbulletin.com\/news\/hawaiinews\/20090329_Aloha_Superferry.html\">Honolulu Star Bulletin<\/a> reported: \u00a0 &#8220;The Alakai went home yesterday looking for work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it was a slip, but it was accurate.\u00a0 The Superferry&#8217;s home is, and always has been somewhere else.\u00a0 It was never a homegrown interisland transportation system to ship pineapples or allow grandma on Maui to visit her grandkids on O&#8217;ahu.\u00a0\u00a0 It was always about powerful outside interests using Hawai&#8217;i to further their business plans and spread the risk to tax payers.\u00a0 That&#8217;s why the business plan for the Superferry never made sense, and why the company was so eager to pack up and ship out once it had gotten everything it needed from Hawai&#8217;i and a convenient out.\u00a0\u00a0 Where the Superferry ends up will reveal a lot about its real business plans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Honolulu Star Bulletin reported: \u00a0 &#8220;The Alakai went home yesterday looking for work.&#8221; Maybe it was a slip, but it was accurate.\u00a0 The Superferry&#8217;s home is, and always has been somewhere else.\u00a0 It was never a homegrown interisland transportation system to ship pineapples or allow grandma on Maui to visit her grandkids on O&#8217;ahu.\u00a0\u00a0 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/?p=2053\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Superferry sails away leaving Hawai&#8217;i with bruises and the tab&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2409],"class_list":["post-2053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-movements-resistance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2053"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2055,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053\/revisions\/2055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dmzhawaii.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}