{"id":1421,"date":"2006-08-16T10:27:35","date_gmt":"2006-08-16T18:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/08\/dog_bites_man.html"},"modified":"2006-08-16T10:27:35","modified_gmt":"2006-08-16T18:27:35","slug":"dog_bites_man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/08\/dog_bites_man.html","title":{"rendered":"Dog Bites Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know what they say &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/08\/16\/nyregion\/16odor.html\/partner\/rssnyt\">&#8220;whoever smelt it . . .&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A pungent smell wafted through Staten Island yesterday, alarming hundreds of residents and spurring a daylong but fruitless investigation into its source, fire officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The city began receiving complaints about an odor, possibly of gas odor at 9:40 a.m., and the City Department of Environmental Protection dispatched a hazardous materials crew &#8212; 24 members in all &#8212; in search of the cause of the stench.<\/p>\n<p>They combed the north and south shores of the island and the Staten Island Expressway, noses on full alert.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s no machinery to detect odor &#8212; the only way to go about it is to go out there and smell it for yourself,&#8221; said Ian Michaels, a department spokesman who added jokingly that he was assigned to odor duty.<\/p>\n<p>The origin of the odor, though, was an elusive one.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know what they say &#8212; &#8220;whoever smelt it . . .&#8221;: A pungent smell wafted through Staten Island yesterday, alarming hundreds of residents and spurring a daylong but fruitless investigation into its source, fire officials said. The city began receiving complaints about an odor, possibly of gas odor at 9:40 a.m., and the City [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just_horrible","category-staten_island"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421","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=1421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}