{"id":2029,"date":"2007-01-19T09:39:07","date_gmt":"2007-01-19T17:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/01\/just_how_bad_is_it_new_york_post_employees_are_forced_to_panhandle.html"},"modified":"2007-01-19T09:39:07","modified_gmt":"2007-01-19T17:39:07","slug":"just_how_bad_is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/01\/just_how_bad_is.html","title":{"rendered":"Just How Bad Is It? New York Post Employees Are Forced To Panhandle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Upper East Siders scream at the New York Post&#8217;s Doug Montero to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/01192007\/news\/regionalnews\/beg_pardon_as_i_bum_out_the_ritzy_regionalnews_douglas_montero.htm\">get a job<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The muscular store worker didn&#8217;t mince words when he told me to shoo from outside the Ralph Lauren clothing shop.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Go stand by the church or I&#8217;m going to call the cops,&#8221; he threatened as I lowered my panhandling coffee cup.<\/p>\n<p>Bumming on Madison Avenue is a tough business.<\/p>\n<p>It took about an hour before the Ralph Lauren workers at the East 72nd Street store began harassing me.<\/p>\n<p>The first worker, a linebacker-sized maintenance worker, told me to get off the store&#8217;s planters because my rear end was disturbing the hedge.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You should go by the church. You&#8217;ll make more money there because people walk by and feel more spiritual,&#8221; he said, pointing toward East 71st Street.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Get a job,&#8221; sneered one 60-something lady.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upper East Siders scream at the New York Post&#8217;s Doug Montero to get a job: The muscular store worker didn&#8217;t mince words when he told me to shoo from outside the Ralph Lauren clothing shop. &#8220;Go stand by the church or I&#8217;m going to call the cops,&#8221; he threatened as I lowered my panhandling coffee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,25,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class_war","category-new_york_post","category-well_what_did_you_expect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029","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=2029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}