{"id":1052,"date":"2006-05-08T09:46:28","date_gmt":"2006-05-08T17:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/05\/peace_through_understanding.html"},"modified":"2006-05-08T09:46:28","modified_gmt":"2006-05-08T17:46:28","slug":"peace_through_u","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/05\/peace_through_u.html","title":{"rendered":"Peace Through Understanding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qgazette.com\/news\/2006\/0503\/features\/008.html\">the proposal to bring the World&#8217;s Fair back to Queens<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/local\/story\/415216p-350915c.html\">Hizzoner is not interested<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Less than a week after advocates began drumming up support to bring the World&#8217;s Fair back to New York, Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday he wasn&#8217;t interested.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was surprised that they still had World&#8217;s Fairs,&#8221; Bloomberg said on his weekly WABC radio show. &#8220;Last time I heard about one was 1964, Flushing Meadows Park.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For the record, the last one was in Aichi, Japan; the next one will be in Zaragoza, Spain, in 2008, followed by Shanghai in 2010. When told they still exist, Bloomberg replied, &#8220;Mazel tov, if there&#8217;s private money that wants to do it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve got other things to do,&#8221; he concluded.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As for the proposal to bring the World&#8217;s Fair back to Queens, Hizzoner is not interested: Less than a week after advocates began drumming up support to bring the World&#8217;s Fair back to New York, Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday he wasn&#8217;t interested. &#8220;I was surprised that they still had World&#8217;s Fairs,&#8221; Bloomberg said on his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-queens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}