{"id":1998,"date":"2007-01-11T09:29:49","date_gmt":"2007-01-11T17:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/01\/well_its_a_start.html"},"modified":"2007-01-11T09:29:49","modified_gmt":"2007-01-11T17:29:49","slug":"well_its_a_star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/01\/well_its_a_star.html","title":{"rendered":"Well, It&#8217;s A Start . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is driven eight blocks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/local\/story\/487637p-410616c.html\">even as he encourages U.N. diplomats to use mass transit<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, who made his public debut at a breakfast with business leaders yesterday, won applause when he urged diplomats to do &#8220;as Mayor Bloomberg does&#8221; and take the subway.<\/p>\n<p>But Ban himself was driven the mere eight blocks from his East Side hotel to the breakfast at the Grand Hyatt in midtown &#8212; and his driver parked the Mercedes illegally in a clearly flagged &#8220;No Standing&#8221; zone outside.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You say &#8216;illegally parked,&#8217; but I&#8217;d say &#8216;illegally stopped,'&#8221; Ban&#8217;s spokeswoman, Choi Soung-ah, told the Daily News.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He did take the car to work,&#8221; Choi said. &#8220;But he has a driver in it at all times, so it&#8217;s not abandoned on the street. When it needs to be moved, they move it.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is driven eight blocks even as he encourages U.N. diplomats to use mass transit: Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, who made his public debut at a breakfast with business leaders yesterday, won applause when he urged diplomats to do &#8220;as Mayor Bloomberg does&#8221; and take the subway. But Ban [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insert_muted_trumpets_sad_wahwah_here"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998","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=1998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}