{"id":3578,"date":"2008-06-25T07:59:45","date_gmt":"2008-06-25T12:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=3578"},"modified":"2008-06-25T07:59:45","modified_gmt":"2008-06-25T12:59:45","slug":"lift_those_cans_love_them_gams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/06\/lift_those_cans_love_them_gams.html","title":{"rendered":"Lift Those Cans, Love Them Gams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next up for New York&#8217;s san-men, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/2008\/06\/24\/2008-06-24_sanitation_workers_hail_new_uniforms-2.html\">a sexy calendar<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>New York&#8217;s Strongest may be showing a lot more leg this summer.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time, city sanitation workers will be allowed to wear shorts during the steamy summer months. <\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t expect any crazy striped Bermudas or short shorts, though. City sanitmen and sanitwomen will be wearing modest green uniform shorts that hit right at the knee. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everybody thought it was a myth, that shorts will never happen,&#8221; said sanitation worker Liston (Benny) Judge, who gamely modeled the new shorts for the Daily News. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This makes a big difference on those humid, 96-degree days.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>The shorts may be ideal for sanitation workers who sweep the street, or drive vehicles long distances, said Harry Nespoli, president of the Uniformed Sanitationmen&#8217;s Association. <\/p>\n<p>They may not be as useful for workers who lug plastic bags &#8212; a favorite target of neighborhood dogs and cats &#8212; or metal baskets that can scrape against their legs.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next up for New York&#8217;s san-men, a sexy calendar: New York&#8217;s Strongest may be showing a lot more leg this summer. For the first time, city sanitation workers will be allowed to wear shorts during the steamy summer months. Don&#8217;t expect any crazy striped Bermudas or short shorts, though. City sanitmen and sanitwomen will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-huzzah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3578","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=3578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}