{"id":1222,"date":"2006-06-27T09:40:40","date_gmt":"2006-06-27T17:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/06\/the_sad_thing_is_that_it_was_probably_a_carefully_crafted_statement.html"},"modified":"2006-06-27T09:40:40","modified_gmt":"2006-06-27T17:40:40","slug":"the_sad_thing_i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/06\/the_sad_thing_i.html","title":{"rendered":"The Sad Thing Is That It Was Probably A Carefully Crafted Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Expect mellifluously alliterative outrage from Al Sharpton after this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/regionalnews\/bloomys_oops_regionalnews_david_seifman.htm\">&#8220;slip of the tongue&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>City Councilman David Yassky, locked in a racially charged congressional race, was all smiles yesterday as Mayor Bloomberg introduced him as &#8220;Congressman Yassky.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the first groundbreaking to come from last year&#8217;s Williamsburg-Greenpoint re-zoning, the mayor praised Yassky &#8212; but press secretary Stu Loeser insisted there was no endorsement, just &#8220;a slip of the tongue.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expect mellifluously alliterative outrage from Al Sharpton after this &#8220;slip of the tongue&#8221;: City Councilman David Yassky, locked in a racially charged congressional race, was all smiles yesterday as Mayor Bloomberg introduced him as &#8220;Congressman Yassky.&#8221; Speaking at the first groundbreaking to come from last year&#8217;s Williamsburg-Greenpoint re-zoning, the mayor praised Yassky &#8212; but press [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,14,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn","category-political","category-someone_way_smarter_than_us_probably_already_worked_this_one_out"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222","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=1222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}