{"id":3511,"date":"2008-06-10T08:40:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-10T13:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=3511"},"modified":"2008-06-10T08:40:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-10T13:40:00","slug":"people_dont_kill_trees_do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/06\/people_dont_kill_trees_do.html","title":{"rendered":"People Don&#8217;t Kill, Trees Do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hopefully people will start to rethink <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/05\/mayor_bloomberg_has_nonprofit_capital_and_he_intends_to_use_it.html\">the cult of trees<\/a> in the wake of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/06102008\/news\/regionalnews\/recess_horror_114882.htm\">near disasters like these<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A 50-foot tree towering over a Manhattan schoolyard full of kids came crashing down with little warning yesterday &#8212; striking more than a dozen shrieking first-graders scattering away from its path. <\/p>\n<p>The tree buckled a sidewalk and fell into the yard of Manhattan&#8217;s Epiphany School at about noon. <\/p>\n<p>A parent volunteer, identified by her husband as Monica Tompos, went to Bellevue Hospital with head and neck injuries, authorities said. <\/p>\n<p>Emergency responders treated 13 children, mostly first-graders, in the school&#8217;s office for minor scrapes, bumps and bruises. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just heard all the little kids screaming and I put my hands up to block my head, but I got hit with the branches,&#8221; said Danniella Tompos, 13, an eighth-grader.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hopefully people will start to rethink the cult of trees in the wake of near disasters like these: A 50-foot tree towering over a Manhattan schoolyard full of kids came crashing down with little warning yesterday &#8212; striking more than a dozen shrieking first-graders scattering away from its path. The tree buckled a sidewalk and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just_horrible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3511","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=3511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}