{"id":28367,"date":"2011-09-22T04:08:10","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T04:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bbc_us_justice_department_paid_16_for_muffins\/"},"modified":"2011-09-22T04:08:10","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T04:08:10","slug":"bbc_us_justice_department_paid_16_for_muffins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28367","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) US justice department paid $16 for muffins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Muffins costing $16 (\u00c2\u00a310) and biscuits at $10 were among the &#8220;extravagant and wasteful&#8221; conference spending by the US justice department, a report has found.<\/p>\n<p>Critics voiced outrage at the spending shown in the internal audit, including $8 coffees and $32-per-person snacks.<\/p>\n<p>The justice department said it accepted the findings, adding that it had taken steps since 2009 &#8220;to ensure that these problems do not occur again&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-14997843\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muffins costing $16 (\u00c2\u00a310) and biscuits at $10 were among the &#8220;extravagant and wasteful&#8221; conference spending by the US justice department, a report has found. Critics voiced outrage at the spending shown in the internal audit, including $8 coffees and<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28367\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,100,149,584],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-dietingfoodnutrition","category-economy","category-the-u-s-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}