{"id":90317,"date":"2022-04-24T22:23:36","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T05:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=90317"},"modified":"2022-04-24T22:23:36","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T05:23:36","slug":"disneys-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2022\/04\/24\/disneys-dilemma\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney&#8217;s Dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a riddle \u2013 how is <em>Disney World <\/em>like <em>Vatican City<\/em>?&nbsp; And don\u2019t guess the obvious \u2013 the inhabitants wearing colorful costumes, the propensity for pomp and circumstances, and a whole lotta gay sex.&nbsp; You see, Vatican City is actually its own little country.&nbsp; Not a country that you need a passport to enter, but a country nonetheless.&nbsp; You\u2019re walking down the street in Rome, minding your own business, and poof, you\u2019re in another country.&nbsp; Well, Disney World is like that \u2013 except you have to pay $120 to get in and hop on their rides.&nbsp; It doesn\u2019t cost anything to go into Vatican City.&nbsp; And there isn\u2019t anything to hop on and ride\u2026except for a few Cardinals!<\/p>\n<p>Disney World may be in Florida, but it\u2019s also kinda not.&nbsp; It\u2019s a \u201cspecial district\u201d and somewhat autonomous.&nbsp; Back in 1968, the company wanted to develop a swamp on the outskirts of Orlando.&nbsp; The state made a deal \u2013 <em>Disney <\/em>could develop it, but they\u2019d be responsible for all the costs \u2013 including the municipal services such as water, electricity, fire, police, etc.&nbsp; That worked for everyone\u2026until the so-called \u201cDon\u2019t Say Gay\u201d controversy.&nbsp; When Disney eventually spoke out against it, <strong>Governor DeSantis <\/strong>retaliated by abolishing many of those \u201cspecial districts\u201d.&nbsp; While one imagines the headaches this causes Disney, many say it could be catastrophic for Florida.&nbsp; It makes the state responsible for all those other expenses, including a $1 billion bond debt.&nbsp; <em>The Happiest Place on Earth<\/em>, my ass!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s a riddle \u2013 how is Disney World like Vatican City?&nbsp; And don\u2019t guess the obvious \u2013 the inhabitants wearing colorful costumes, the propensity for pomp and circumstances, and a whole lotta gay sex.&nbsp; You see, Vatican City is actually its own little country.&nbsp; Not a country that you need a passport to enter, but<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90326,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90317\/revisions\/90326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}