{"id":4339,"date":"2009-01-20T09:40:38","date_gmt":"2009-01-20T14:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=4339"},"modified":"2009-01-20T09:40:38","modified_gmt":"2009-01-20T14:40:38","slug":"remember_the_maine_to_hell_with_canadian_geese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/01\/remember_the_maine_to_hell_with_canadian_geese.html","title":{"rendered":"Remember The Maine, To Hell With Canadian Geese!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Post treads a dangerousely Hearst-like line by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/01192009\/news\/regionalnews\/public_sick_of_geese_150835.htm\">inflaming the anti-geese passions of at least three middle-aged men in Queens<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>New Yorkers clamored yesterday for flocks of geese near area airports to be killed to prevent them from taking out another plane like the US Airways carrier forced to crash-land in the Hudson. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These geese are a blight,&#8221; said William Santos, 50, as he walked the World&#8217;s Fair Marina near La Guardia Airport, where more than 100 geese gathered. &#8220;The city has to get them out of here, just for our own safety, never mind the mess they leave behind.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another marina visitor, Jack Riley, 43, was more blunt: &#8220;They should have a hunting season here on these geese. Let the criminals shoot the geese instead of people.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>A collision with a flock of geese is being blamed for the engine failure of the US Airways flight.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Post treads a dangerousely Hearst-like line by inflaming the anti-geese passions of at least three middle-aged men in Queens: New Yorkers clamored yesterday for flocks of geese near area airports to be killed to prevent them from taking out another plane like the US Airways carrier forced to crash-land in the Hudson. &#8220;These geese [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,25,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fear_mongering","category-new_york_post","category-things_that_make_you_go_oy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4339","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=4339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4340,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4339\/revisions\/4340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}