{"id":340,"date":"2005-08-18T09:42:42","date_gmt":"2005-08-18T17:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/08\/well_that_was_to_be_expected.html"},"modified":"2005-08-18T09:42:42","modified_gmt":"2005-08-18T17:42:42","slug":"well_that_was_t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/08\/well_that_was_t.html","title":{"rendered":"Well, That Was To Be Expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/07\/well_what_do_yo.html\">the Mayor revealed that his phone number was listed<\/a>, and media outlets everywhere ran with that fact, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/local\/story\/338406p-288955c.html\">Hizzoner is receiving more calls than he can handle<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;One reporter put my phone number &#8211; my home phone number &#8211; on television, and that quickly got it onto the Internet,&#8221; said Bloomberg during a town hall meeting in Whitestone, Queens, last night. &#8220;And, so, people from around the world started calling. And there was roughly 100 calls an hour 24 hours a day from around the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hizzoner said the volume has become so great, he needs help answering the line.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve got a bunch of people answering the phone because I just couldn&#8217;t possibly keep up with it,&#8221; he said. &#8220;No. 1, I needed some sleep. And, No. 2, they were coming in faster than I could direct them.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There is such thing as &#8220;voice mail,&#8221; you know . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the Mayor revealed that his phone number was listed, and media outlets everywhere ran with that fact, Hizzoner is receiving more calls than he can handle: &#8220;One reporter put my phone number &#8211; my home phone number &#8211; on television, and that quickly got it onto the Internet,&#8221; said Bloomberg during a town hall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","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=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}