{"id":1210,"date":"2006-06-23T09:38:20","date_gmt":"2006-06-23T17:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/06\/thats_a_win-win-win_situation.html"},"modified":"2008-01-25T11:00:51","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T16:00:51","slug":"thats_a_winwinw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/06\/thats_a_winwinw.html","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s A Win-Win-Win Situation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LaGuardia planes are safer, the needy are less hungry and the population of indiscriminate pooper birds is that much smaller &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/local\/story\/429088p-361816c.html\">win-win-win<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>These geese could be cooked.<\/p>\n<p>Federal wildlife experts netted and gassed 165 of the birds on Rikers Island yesterday. The Canada Geese &#8212; which could end up as food for the needy &#8212; are considered a hazard for planes flying in and out of LaGuardia Airport.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Department of Agriculture officials will come back to the island next week to see if any birds dare to return &#8212; and kill more if necessary.<\/p>\n<p>The birds will be frozen and tested to see if they are safe for donation to food pantries, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>So far this year, 32 planes have struck geese at LaGuardia, Port Authority officials said yesterday.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LaGuardia planes are safer, the needy are less hungry and the population of indiscriminate pooper birds is that much smaller &#8212; win-win-win: These geese could be cooked. Federal wildlife experts netted and gassed 165 of the birds on Rikers Island yesterday. The Canada Geese &#8212; which could end up as food for the needy &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-huzzah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210","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=1210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}