{"id":3474,"date":"2008-05-30T08:48:58","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T13:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=3474"},"modified":"2008-05-30T08:48:58","modified_gmt":"2008-05-30T13:48:58","slug":"attorney_general_cuomo_does_the_heavy_lifting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/05\/attorney_general_cuomo_does_the_heavy_lifting.html","title":{"rendered":"Attorney General Cuomo Does The Heavy Lifting . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>. . . and gets to the bottom of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/11\/thanks_for_desc.html\">that gruesome Bodies exhibition<\/a>, which, even though he liked and all, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/05302008\/news\/regionalnews\/ags_bodies_of_evidence_113150.htm\">just felt funny in the end<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The company behind &#8220;Bodies . . . The Exhibition&#8221; has agreed to document the origin of the cadavers in its show at the South Street Seaport and give past patrons a full ticket refund, Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said yesterday. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People have a right to know what they&#8217;re viewing,&#8221; Cuomo said at a news conference. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The grim reality is that [show producer] Premier Exhibitions has profited from displaying the remains of individuals who may have been tortured and executed in China.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>There have long been rumors that the bodies are those of political prisoners. <\/p>\n<p>Under the agreement, customers who can establish they would not have attended the exhibition had they known of the questions about the origins of the bodies are eligible for refunds.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. . . and gets to the bottom of that gruesome Bodies exhibition, which, even though he liked and all, just felt funny in the end: The company behind &#8220;Bodies . . . The Exhibition&#8221; has agreed to document the origin of the cadavers in its show at the South Street Seaport and give past [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grandstanding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3474","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=3474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}