{"id":2597,"date":"2007-08-08T12:00:22","date_gmt":"2007-08-08T20:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/08\/free_hiram.html"},"modified":"2007-08-08T12:00:22","modified_gmt":"2007-08-08T20:00:22","slug":"free_hiram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/08\/free_hiram.html","title":{"rendered":"Free Hiram!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is New York, not L.A. &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/08082007\/news\/regionalnews\/councilman_parties_with_hwood_scientology_set_regionalnews_david_seifman___hall_bureau_chief.htm\">you shouldn&#8217;t have to suck up to Scientologists<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A Queens legislator &#8212; who insists a controversial detoxification program he&#8217;s promoting in lower Manhattan isn&#8217;t a front for Scientology &#8212; attended a celebrity-studded Los Angeles gala sponsored by the Church of Scientology.<\/p>\n<p>City Councilman Hiram Monserrate said he paid his own way Saturday to the glitzy Hollywood event celebrating the 38th anniversary of the Church of Scientology Celebrity Center.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>Monserrate had earlier sponsored a council proclamation honoring L. Ron Hubbard, who founded Scientology.<\/p>\n<p>But Monserrate said his trip was strictly personal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have some friends who are Scientologists and they invited me and I went,&#8221; he said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/05\/scientoxicology.html\">Sciento(xico)logy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is New York, not L.A. &#8212; you shouldn&#8217;t have to suck up to Scientologists: A Queens legislator &#8212; who insists a controversial detoxification program he&#8217;s promoting in lower Manhattan isn&#8217;t a front for Scientology &#8212; attended a celebrity-studded Los Angeles gala sponsored by the Church of Scientology. City Councilman Hiram Monserrate said he paid [&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-2597","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\/2597","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=2597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}