{"id":2560,"date":"2007-07-30T10:25:27","date_gmt":"2007-07-30T18:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/07\/governings_a_bitch_aint_it.html"},"modified":"2007-07-30T10:25:27","modified_gmt":"2007-07-30T18:25:27","slug":"governings_a_bi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/07\/governings_a_bi.html","title":{"rendered":"Governing&#8217;s A Bitch, Ain&#8217;t It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/2007\/07\/30\/2007-07-30_adding_b_h_to_nword_ban-3.html\">Councilmembers continue the heavy lifting at City Hall<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>One down. Two more to go. City lawmakers are now hoping to slap a symbolic ban on the words &#8220;bitch&#8221; and &#8220;ho.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Councilwoman Darlene Mealy (D-Brooklyn) is calling for a halt on the use of the two sexist slurs, which are popular in rap lyrics.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When these words are used, they injure all women,&#8221; Mealy told the Daily News.<\/p>\n<p>Mealy&#8217;s resolution, introduced last week, comes after the Council unanimously approved a similar stance on the N-word in March.<\/p>\n<p>The resolutions are not legally enforceable bans. Instead, they are designed to persuade the music industry and young people to take the insults out of their vocabulary.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Councilmembers continue the heavy lifting at City Hall: One down. Two more to go. City lawmakers are now hoping to slap a symbolic ban on the words &#8220;bitch&#8221; and &#8220;ho.&#8221; Councilwoman Darlene Mealy (D-Brooklyn) is calling for a halt on the use of the two sexist slurs, which are popular in rap lyrics. &#8220;When these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-please_make_it_stop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2560","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=2560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}