{"id":61693,"date":"2026-01-25T17:21:47","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T22:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=61693"},"modified":"2026-01-25T17:21:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T22:21:51","slug":"brightline-skips-second-bond-payment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2026\/01\/25\/brightline-skips-second-bond-payment\/","title":{"rendered":"Brightline skips second bond payment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" src=\"http:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/brightline.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19658\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/brightline.jpg 800w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/brightline-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/brightline-768x576.jpg 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brightline Trains Florida deferred a second interest payment on $1.2 billion of subordinate municipal bonds on Jan. 15, per Bloomberg. Ridership is running about 50% below the company\u2019s projections, prompting S&amp;P to downgrade the railroad\u2019s bonds to junk status.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brightline Trains Florida deferred a second interest payment on $1.2 billion of subordinate municipal bonds on Jan. 15, per Bloomberg. Ridership is running about 50% below the company\u2019s projections, prompting&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","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":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyMlwvMDFcL2JyaWdodGxpbmUuanBnP2ZpdD04MDAlMkM2MDAmc3NsPTEiLCJ0eHQiOiJCcmlnaHRsaW5lIHNraXBzIHNlY29uZCBib25kIHBheW1lbnQiLCJ0ZW1wbGF0ZSI6ImhpZ2h3YXkiLCJmb250IjoiIiwiYmxvZ19pZCI6MTYzMDQwNjYxfQ.tnnsUI8spj8FyVa9QG9w4P-tx3KfUIB-eJS9CQ24rxoMQ"},"version":2,"attached_media":[{"id":19658,"url":"http:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/brightline.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[13352],"class_list":["post-61693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-regional-and-world-news","tag-brightline-skips-second-bond-payment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61694,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61693\/revisions\/61694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}