{"id":3720,"date":"2008-08-22T08:25:13","date_gmt":"2008-08-22T13:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=3720"},"modified":"2008-08-22T08:25:13","modified_gmt":"2008-08-22T13:25:13","slug":"politics_snow_business_for_ugly_people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/08\/politics_snow_business_for_ugly_people.html","title":{"rendered":"Politics: Snow Business For Ugly People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I guess this means those <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/08\/18\/nyregion\/18clocks.html?ex=1376798400&#038;en=f6db6861d5a2fb7c&#038;ei=5124&#038;partner=permalink&#038;exprod=permalink\">countdown clocks<\/a> have become a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/08222008\/news\/regionalnews\/in_uncertain_term_125584.htm\">gigantic waste of money<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>In an abrupt reversal, Mayor Bloomberg yesterday left the door open to supporting a change to the term-limits law through legislation. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My job is if the City Council comes to us with a piece of legislation, we will look at it, we will consider it, and we&#8217;ll make what I hope is an informed judgment into what is in the best interest in the city,&#8221; the mayor said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The City Council has the right to change term limits if they want to.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I guess this means those countdown clocks have become a gigantic waste of money: In an abrupt reversal, Mayor Bloomberg yesterday left the door open to supporting a change to the term-limits law through legislation. &#8220;My job is if the City Council comes to us with a piece of legislation, we will look at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-please_make_it_stop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3720","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=3720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3721,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3720\/revisions\/3721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}