{"id":1597,"date":"2006-09-25T09:51:17","date_gmt":"2006-09-25T17:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/09\/no_offense_taken.html"},"modified":"2006-09-25T09:51:17","modified_gmt":"2006-09-25T17:51:17","slug":"no_offense_take","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/09\/no_offense_take.html","title":{"rendered":"No Offense Taken . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uh, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/regionalnews\/adding_insult_to_boroughs_regionalnews_angela_montefinise.htm\">dude, it&#8217;s an ad<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>An irate city councilman is declaring war on a popular storage company over a subway ad he finds &#8220;offensive and insulting&#8221; to the outer boroughs.<br \/>\nPublic Storage ads proclaim, &#8220;Finally, a good reason to leave Manhattan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Councilman Eric Gioia (D-Queens) fired off a furious letter to the California-based storage company yesterday, demanding that the &#8220;narrow-minded and inaccurate&#8221; ads be removed from city subways and buses immediately.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Implying, as your company does, that there is no reason, other than your storage facilities, to visit four of the five boroughs is simply wrong,&#8221; Gioia wrote to CEO Ronald Havner Jr.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What, no 7 train service interruptions this weekend? Nothing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/07\/community_leade.html\">Con Ed did<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uh, dude, it&#8217;s an ad: An irate city councilman is declaring war on a popular storage company over a subway ad he finds &#8220;offensive and insulting&#8221; to the outer boroughs. Public Storage ads proclaim, &#8220;Finally, a good reason to leave Manhattan.&#8221; Councilman Eric Gioia (D-Queens) fired off a furious letter to the California-based storage company [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grandstanding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597","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=1597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}