{"id":2717,"date":"2007-09-06T07:44:06","date_gmt":"2007-09-06T15:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/09\/your_therapist_will_tell_you_that_we_all_register_support_in_our_own_way_and_its_important_not_to_waste_time_trying_to_figure_out_who_registers_more_or_less_support_because_then_wed_all_start_t"},"modified":"2008-01-24T11:32:11","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T16:32:11","slug":"your_therapist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/09\/your_therapist.html","title":{"rendered":"Your Therapist Will Tell You That We All Register Support In Our Own Way And It&#8217;s Important Not To Waste Time Trying To Figure Out Who Registers &#8220;More&#8221; Or &#8220;Less&#8221; Support Because Then We&#8217;d All Start To Lose Focus Of The Main Thing, Which Is That We Support Stuff In The First Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I support the strike, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/09062007\/news\/regionalnews\/strike_fizzles_as_most_drivers.htm\">but . . .<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Most New Yorkers didn&#8217;t even notice yesterday&#8217;s taxi strike because the vast majority of drivers chose to hit the streets &#8212; and ended up hitting the jackpot.<\/p>\n<p>Several thousand cabbies did engage in a hackout to protest new global-positioning satellite technology being installed in all 13,000 yellow taxis. But the ones who thumbed their noses at the strikers and drove right past the picket line had record paydays &#8212; thanks to a combination of less competition and emergency per-person rates imposed by the city.<\/p>\n<p>Drivers told The Post their incomes doubled and, in some cases, even quadrupled. Fred Amoaf, who normally earns a little over $100 a day, said that yesterday, he raked in $400.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I support the strikers but I already paid for my car,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Another driver said, &#8220;Tuesday, I worked for 12 hours and I only made $200 all day. Today, I started at 5 a.m. and I have $270 already. By 5 p.m., I will make at least $350 &#8212; all because of the strike.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I support the strike, but . . .: Most New Yorkers didn&#8217;t even notice yesterday&#8217;s taxi strike because the vast majority of drivers chose to hit the streets &#8212; and ended up hitting the jackpot. Several thousand cabbies did engage in a hackout to protest new global-positioning satellite technology being installed in all 13,000 yellow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everyone_is_to_blame_here"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2717","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=2717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}