{"id":4277,"date":"2009-01-12T09:22:36","date_gmt":"2009-01-12T14:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=4277"},"modified":"2009-01-12T09:22:36","modified_gmt":"2009-01-12T14:22:36","slug":"how_about_ramble_the_rubber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/01\/how_about_ramble_the_rubber.html","title":{"rendered":"How About Ramble The Rubber?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/01122009\/news\/regionalnews\/wanted__nutty_mascot_149802.htm\">this is what the Parks Department is working on these days<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Watch out, Mr. Met, the city Parks Department is looking for a new mascot that could become the hottest character in town. <\/p>\n<p>The public is being asked to come up with ideas for a figure to represent the city agency, and cartoonish creations have already begun to flood into the department&#8217;s Central Park headquarters. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Who &#8212; or what &#8212; should be the official mascot of the New York City Department of Parks &#038; Recreation, and what is its name?&#8221; the agency asks on its Web site. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Is it Nutty the Squirrel, Hudson the Hawk or Parker the Leaf? Is it another animal, person or object, or a previously unknown creature that emerged from the depths of New York City&#8217;s 29,000 acres of parks, gardens and forests?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Some of the ideas Parks officials have already batted around include a duck with a ranger&#8217;s hat and a squirrel that unzips its fur to reveal a shirt with the Parks logo of a white leaf on a green background.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So this is what the Parks Department is working on these days: Watch out, Mr. Met, the city Parks Department is looking for a new mascot that could become the hottest character in town. The public is being asked to come up with ideas for a figure to represent the city agency, and cartoonish creations [&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-4277","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\/4277","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=4277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4278,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4277\/revisions\/4278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}