{"id":2716,"date":"2007-09-05T17:34:48","date_gmt":"2007-09-06T01:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/09\/we_are_all_tourists_now.html"},"modified":"2007-09-05T17:34:48","modified_gmt":"2007-09-06T01:34:48","slug":"we_are_all_tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/09\/we_are_all_tour.html","title":{"rendered":"We Are All Tourists Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Striking taxi drivers claim <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/09\/06\/nyregion\/05cnd-taxi.html?ex=1346731200&#038;en=98aaafafff2e88f1&#038;ei=5124&#038;partner=permalink&#038;exprod=permalink\">success so far<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The alliance&#8217;s organizer, Bhairavi Desai, said the action was a &#8220;resounding success,&#8221; adding that a vast majority of drivers stayed away from work.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Look at the roads,&#8221; she told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Ed Ott, the executive director of the New York City Central Labor Council, an A.F.L.-C.I.O. umbrella group for the city&#8217;s unions, joined her at a news conference and said the strike was effective.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you can&#8217;t tell the difference between yesterday at Penn Station,&#8221; he said, &#8220;and today, you&#8217;re blind or you&#8217;re a tourist.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If the mayor wants to get creative, he can perhaps play off of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/08\/new_york_swings.html\">that theme<\/a> during the press conference . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Striking taxi drivers claim success so far: The alliance&#8217;s organizer, Bhairavi Desai, said the action was a &#8220;resounding success,&#8221; adding that a vast majority of drivers stayed away from work. &#8220;Look at the roads,&#8221; she told reporters. Ed Ott, the executive director of the New York City Central Labor Council, an A.F.L.-C.I.O. umbrella group for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-smells_fishy_smells_not_right"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716","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=2716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}