{"id":1250,"date":"2006-07-05T09:32:26","date_gmt":"2006-07-05T17:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/07\/i_told_you_so_i_told_you_so.html"},"modified":"2006-07-05T09:32:26","modified_gmt":"2006-07-05T17:32:26","slug":"i_told_you_so_i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/07\/i_told_you_so_i.html","title":{"rendered":"I Told You So! I Told You So!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The only thing worse than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/07\/i_uh_ran_into_a.html\">losing three fingers in an ill-advised fireworks experiment and having to lie about it later<\/a> is having <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/regionalnews\/mayors_plea_on_fireworks_regionalnews_stephanie_gaskell.htm\">high-and-mighty Hizzoner cluck-cluck about it afterwards<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>An injured city firefighter was held up by Mayor Bloomberg yesterday as an example of the dangers of illegal fireworks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You saw in the paper today there was a firefighter who lost part of his hand,&#8221; he told a crowd gathered at a Fourth of July Parade in Staten Island. &#8220;Fireworks can blind kids, they can maim them.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The only thing worse than losing three fingers in an ill-advised fireworks experiment and having to lie about it later is having high-and-mighty Hizzoner cluck-cluck about it afterwards: An injured city firefighter was held up by Mayor Bloomberg yesterday as an example of the dangers of illegal fireworks. &#8220;You saw in the paper today there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-well_what_did_you_expect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250","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=1250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}