{"id":3920,"date":"2008-10-24T09:46:37","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T14:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=3920"},"modified":"2008-10-24T09:46:37","modified_gmt":"2008-10-24T14:46:37","slug":"huh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/10\/huh.html","title":{"rendered":"Huh?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People have been throwing around Orwell&#8217;s Animal Farm a lot lately. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politickerny.com\/azipaybarah\/170\/quinn-uses-bush-analogy\">But this is truly Orwellian<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>City Council Speaker Christine Quinn defended her decision to move forward with legislation extending term limits, saying the three-week process was not rushed.<\/p>\n<p>Quinn also defended her flip-flop on extending term limits &#8212; she opposed the idea in December but reversed herself days ago &#8212; comparing it with the stubbornness George W. Bush displayed as president.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Many of us, myself included, have been highly critical of our president. When facts change, he won&#8217;t change his position on different matters,&#8221; she said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So you&#8217;re not George . . . uh . . . what was I saying?  I think I&#8217;ve just been hypnotized . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People have been throwing around Orwell&#8217;s Animal Farm a lot lately. But this is truly Orwellian: City Council Speaker Christine Quinn defended her decision to move forward with legislation extending term limits, saying the three-week process was not rushed. Quinn also defended her flip-flop on extending term limits &#8212; she opposed the idea in December [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-youre_kidding_right"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3920","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=3920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3921,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3920\/revisions\/3921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}