{"id":4420,"date":"2009-02-03T10:40:39","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T15:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=4420"},"modified":"2009-02-03T10:40:39","modified_gmt":"2009-02-03T15:40:39","slug":"prognostication_karma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/02\/prognostication_karma.html","title":{"rendered":"Prognostication: Karma!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moral: no third term, no pandering (er, <em>&#8220;campaigning&#8221;<\/em>); no campaigning, no <a href=\"http:\/\/www.silive.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2009\/02\/bloomberg_laughs_off_bite_from.html\">getting your hand bitten off by a rodent<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>If Mayor Bloomberg&#8217;s pride was wounded &#8212; along with his hand &#8212; in his encounter with Staten Island Chuck, hizzoner wasn&#8217;t letting on this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Hours after the borough&#8217;s prognosticating groundhog snapped at Bloomberg&#8217;s hand during today&#8217;s Groundhog Day festivities at the Staten Island Zoo, West Brighton, the mayor laughed off the run-in.<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg joked at another event later that city residents should rest assured that their mayor is &#8220;willing to put himself and his physical well-being in harm&#8217;s way to protect them&#8221; against what might have been &#8220;a terrorist rodent.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In other news: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.silive.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2009\/02\/staten_island_chuck_says_early.html\">It will be an early spring<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moral: no third term, no pandering (er, &#8220;campaigning&#8221;); no campaigning, no getting your hand bitten off by a rodent: If Mayor Bloomberg&#8217;s pride was wounded &#8212; along with his hand &#8212; in his encounter with Staten Island Chuck, hizzoner wasn&#8217;t letting on this afternoon. Hours after the borough&#8217;s prognosticating groundhog snapped at Bloomberg&#8217;s hand during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insert_muted_trumpets_sad_wahwah_here","category-staten_island"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4420","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=4420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4421,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4420\/revisions\/4421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}