{"id":1159,"date":"2006-06-12T09:12:27","date_gmt":"2006-06-12T17:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/06\/wed_hold_you_in_higher_esteem_if_you_only_did_what_we_asked.html"},"modified":"2006-06-12T09:12:27","modified_gmt":"2006-06-12T17:12:27","slug":"wed_hold_you_in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/06\/wed_hold_you_in.html","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;d Hold You In Higher Esteem If You Only Did What We Asked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just in time for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/06\/unite_to_stop_w.html\">today&#8217;s big meeting<\/a>, the Times finds the space <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/06\/12\/nyregion\/12owens.html?ex=1307764800&#038;en=29d35e3256575fd2&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss\">to consider the weird racial battle underway in Congressional District 11<\/a>, snagging this howler:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Karim Camara, a Brooklyn minister who succeeded Mr. Norman in the State Assembly, said that Mr. Yassky, rather than running himself, would have &#8220;earned a place of higher esteem if he had agreed to be supportive of a black candidate.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just in time for today&#8217;s big meeting, the Times finds the space to consider the weird racial battle underway in Congressional District 11, snagging this howler: Karim Camara, a Brooklyn minister who succeeded Mr. Norman in the State Assembly, said that Mr. Yassky, rather than running himself, would have &#8220;earned a place of higher esteem [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159","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=1159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}