{"id":3601,"date":"2008-07-15T08:36:16","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T13:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=3601"},"modified":"2008-07-15T08:36:16","modified_gmt":"2008-07-15T13:36:16","slug":"we_need_a_new_smokey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/07\/we_need_a_new_smokey.html","title":{"rendered":"We Need A New Smokey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you were wondering why there&#8217;s dog crap all over 189th street <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/bronx\/2008\/07\/14\/2008-07-14_students_in_bronx_cant_see_big_picture_o.html\">this is all you need to know<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The Bronx teen throws gum wrappers on the street, doesn&#8217;t reuse plastic bags from the store and doesn&#8217;t have a compact fluorescent light bulb in her bedroom. <\/p>\n<p>A student at University Heights High School, the 17-year-old is like many of her friends in the neighborhood. They don&#8217;t care about environmental issues. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Global warming is going to be coming thousands of years from now,&#8221; she said. &#8220;We&#8217;re not going to be alive, so I don&#8217;t care.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No matter what, I&#8217;m gonna die by growing old or getting shot or something,&#8221; said Brian Fermin, 12, of Middle School 206. <\/p>\n<p>Some neighborhood kids said global warming is inevitable, and they don&#8217;t see how their involvement could help. <\/p>\n<p>And some teens have other things occupying their minds. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am more about boys than I am about my environment,&#8221; Brittaney said. <\/p>\n<p>Also, they said, no one they know recycles or even picks up trash from the sidewalk.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you were wondering why there&#8217;s dog crap all over 189th street this is all you need to know: The Bronx teen throws gum wrappers on the street, doesn&#8217;t reuse plastic bags from the store and doesn&#8217;t have a compact fluorescent light bulb in her bedroom. A student at University Heights High School, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the_bronx","category-things_that_make_you_go_oy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3601","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=3601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}