{"id":30543,"date":"2012-08-07T04:11:30","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T08:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=30543"},"modified":"2012-08-07T04:11:30","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T08:11:30","slug":"scranton-council-pursues-hedge-fund-financing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2012\/scranton-council-pursues-hedge-fund-financing.html","title":{"rendered":"Scranton Council pursues hedge fund financing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Times Tribune &#8211; Scranton City Council is pursuing a plan to borrow up to $18 million from a hedge fund to cover this year&#8217;s budget gap, council officials have said.<\/p>\n<p>The financially strapped city has been struggling for months to craft a recovery plan that would be acceptable to lending institutions so they would again provide financing to the city, as well as pass muster of the city&#8217;s state-appointed Act 47 recovery coordinator, Pennsylvania Economy League, Mayor Chris Doherty has said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thetimes-tribune.com\/news\/scranton-council-pursues-hedge-fund-financing-1.1355503\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Times Tribune &#8211; Scranton City Council is pursuing a plan to borrow up to $18 million from a hedge fund to cover this year&#8217;s budget gap, council officials have said. The financially strapped city has been struggling for months [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30543"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30545,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30543\/revisions\/30545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}