{"id":1459,"date":"2006-08-24T10:07:03","date_gmt":"2006-08-24T18:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/08\/see_the_thing_is_was_senior_year_was_just_such_a_blur_for_me.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T18:32:23","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T23:32:23","slug":"see_the_thing_i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/08\/see_the_thing_i.html","title":{"rendered":"See, The Thing Is Was, Senior Year Was Just Such A Blur For Me . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One day after she received <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/08\/23\/nyregion\/23brooklyn.html?ex=1313985600&#038;en=8c57d63ab0578845&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss\">a big endorsement from rising star Anthony Weiner<\/a>, opposition research about CD11 candidate Yvette Clark emerges with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/regionalnews\/fibbing_to_a_degree_regionalnews_stephanie_gaskell.htm\">its first hit<\/a>. Oh, how did that get in the Post? Hmm, I wonder:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A Brooklyn congressional candidate said yesterday she forget that she never completed her college degree.<\/p>\n<p>City Councilwoman Yvette Clarke, running in the 11th District, claims on the Campaign Finance Board Web site that she graduated from Ohio&#8217;s Oberlin College. But the Democrat, who also studied at Brooklyn&#8217;s Medgar Evers College, admitted yesterday to being two classes short of her BA.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I spent much of the day today in contact with Oberlin College and Medgar Evers College to retrieve my academic records from two decades ago, convinced of my recollection that I had fulfilled the requirements for a bachelor&#8217;s degree,&#8221; Clarke said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Contrary to that recollection, I have now discovered that I remain two classes short of the requirements for my degree. This is an embarrassing moment for me, but I feel it is important to set the record straight.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Next oppo steps: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/08\/excitement.html\">Check how crazy she sounded on the podcast<\/a> (I haven&#8217;t listened to it). Or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/shows\/bl\/episodes\/2006\/08\/01\">here<\/a> (I&#8217;m pretty sure she was the only one who out and out said that only an African-American should run).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One day after she received a big endorsement from rising star Anthony Weiner, opposition research about CD11 candidate Yvette Clark emerges with its first hit. Oh, how did that get in the Post? Hmm, I wonder: A Brooklyn congressional candidate said yesterday she forget that she never completed her college degree. City Councilwoman Yvette Clarke, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,14,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn","category-political","category-see_the_thing_is_was"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459","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=1459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}