{"id":4228,"date":"2009-01-06T09:31:18","date_gmt":"2009-01-06T14:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=4228"},"modified":"2009-01-06T09:37:20","modified_gmt":"2009-01-06T14:37:20","slug":"the_sweet_smell_of_another_100_million_campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/01\/the_sweet_smell_of_another_100_million_campaign.html","title":{"rendered":"The Sweet Smell Of Another $100 Million Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than three years ago the mayor was running for reelection. Now it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/2009\/01\/06\/2009-01-06_mayor_bloomberg_digging_for_votes.html\">starting<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.newsday.com\/news\/local\/longisland\/politics\/blog\/2009\/01\/bloomberg_finishes_israel_pand.html\">again<\/a>. Maybe that&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/01\/06\/nyregion\/06sweet.html?partner=permalink&#038;exprod=permalink\">the link<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The mysterious sweet smell that swept over parts of the city more than three years ago returned on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>The city&#8217;s 311 information line was flooded with callers reporting the smell of maple syrup, or something like it, wafting across several neighborhoods, a spokesman for the Office of Emergency Management said.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly all of the calls &#8212; 35 in just a few hours &#8212; came from areas in Manhattan, the spokesman said, although one caller reported smelling the sweet scent across the East River in Queens.<\/p>\n<p>Department of Environmental Protection agency investigators were searching for the source of the smell late Monday night and early Tuesday morning, the agency&#8217;s spokesman said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For more on the mysterious, still unexplained Smell of 2005: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/10\/the_sweet_smell.html\">The Sweet Smell Of Maple Doughnuts, Or Perhaps Eggos<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/12\/smell_returns.html\">Smell Returns?<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/10\/mysterious_smel.html\">Mysterious Smell Comes, Goes And Leaves No Clues In Its Wake<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/01\/sweet_syrupy_sm.html\">Sweet Syrupy Smell, I Wish I Knew How To Quit You!<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than three years ago the mayor was running for reelection. Now it&#8217;s starting again. Maybe that&#8217;s the link: The mysterious sweet smell that swept over parts of the city more than three years ago returned on Monday night. The city&#8217;s 311 information line was flooded with callers reporting the smell of maple syrup, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-smells_fishy_smells_not_right"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4228","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=4228"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4230,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4228\/revisions\/4230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}