{"id":1826,"date":"2006-11-29T10:10:07","date_gmt":"2006-11-29T18:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/11\/learn_from_the_masters.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T15:33:16","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T20:33:16","slug":"learn_from_the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/11\/learn_from_the.html","title":{"rendered":"Learn From The Masters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reverend Sharpton and Mayor Bloomberg <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/11292006\/news\/regionalnews\/rev__al_was_lukewarm_bloomberg_backup_regionalnews_david_seifman.htm\">show us how it&#8217;s done<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>It was an odd moment in the aftermath of the police shooting of Sean Bell: the Rev. Al Sharpton posing with Mayor Bloomberg before TV cameras at a City Hall press conference but then bolting before the first word was uttered.<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg explained Sharpton&#8217;s hasty departure Monday by saying the reverend had to rush to a meeting with the victim&#8217;s family.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, Sharpton hadn&#8217;t wanted to attend the press conference at all &#8212; but was persuaded by the mayor to put in a brief appearance, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>With Sharpton at his side, Bloomberg could demonstrate that he had reached out to the most fiery critic of the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p>But by leaving early, Sharpton avoided putting himself in an awkward situation where he might have to publicly disagree with the mayor, whom some had expected to defend the police.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reverend Sharpton and Mayor Bloomberg show us how it&#8217;s done: It was an odd moment in the aftermath of the police shooting of Sean Bell: the Rev. Al Sharpton posing with Mayor Bloomberg before TV cameras at a City Hall press conference but then bolting before the first word was uttered. Bloomberg explained Sharpton&#8217;s hasty [&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-1826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grandstanding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826","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=1826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}