{"id":3326,"date":"2008-04-07T09:03:04","date_gmt":"2008-04-07T14:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=3326"},"modified":"2008-04-07T09:03:04","modified_gmt":"2008-04-07T14:03:04","slug":"you_snooze_you_lose_buddy_fuhgeddaboudit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/04\/you_snooze_you_lose_buddy_fuhgeddaboudit.html","title":{"rendered":"You Snooze, You Lose, Buddy, Fuhgeddaboudit!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/brooklyn\/2008\/04\/07\/2008-04-07_marty_markowitzs_wife_jamie_moves_fast_f.html\">Mrs. Markowitz swag-gers her way around town<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Who knew the first lady of Brooklyn was also its biggest booster?<\/p>\n<p>Jamie Markowitz, the wife of Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, scooped up eight pricey fiberglass place mats &#8211; works of art by pop artist Takashi Murakami &#8211; set aside for guests at a glitzy Brooklyn Museum gala. <\/p>\n<p>The limited-edition Technicolor mats, which have sold for $1,000 on eBay after a similar event, were included in a grab bag of pricey freebies for guests celebrating the opening of the artist&#8217;s three-month exhibition last Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a little true,&#8221; Markowitz laughed Sunday when asked about an item on RadarOnline.com that painted her as a tad greedy. <\/p>\n<p>Radar reported that when several guests who didn&#8217;t get a mat asked for one of her eight, she replied, &#8220;You guys really should have acted faster. This is Brooklyn!&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>To another, she said, &#8220;You snooze, you lose, buddy. Forget it.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mrs. Markowitz swag-gers her way around town: Who knew the first lady of Brooklyn was also its biggest booster? Jamie Markowitz, the wife of Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, scooped up eight pricey fiberglass place mats &#8211; works of art by pop artist Takashi Murakami &#8211; set aside for guests at a glitzy Brooklyn Museum [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn","category-grrr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3326","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=3326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}