{"id":4516,"date":"2009-03-01T09:11:05","date_gmt":"2009-03-01T14:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=4516"},"modified":"2009-03-01T09:11:05","modified_gmt":"2009-03-01T14:11:05","slug":"glad_thats_out_of_the_way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/03\/glad_thats_out_of_the_way.html","title":{"rendered":"Glad That&#8217;s Out Of The Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/01\/nyregion\/01koch.html\">For the record<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>For the record, Mr. Koch, a lifelong bachelor, declines to say whether he is gay. &#8220;I do not want to add to the acceptability of asking every candidate, &#8216;Are you straight or gay or lesbian?&#8217; and make it a legitimate question, so I don&#8217;t submit to that question. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t care if people think I&#8217;m gay because I don&#8217;t answer it. I&#8217;m flattered that at 84 people are interested in my sex life &#8212; and, it&#8217;s quite limited.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the record: For the record, Mr. Koch, a lifelong bachelor, declines to say whether he is gay. &#8220;I do not want to add to the acceptability of asking every candidate, &#8216;Are you straight or gay or lesbian?&#8217; and make it a legitimate question, so I don&#8217;t submit to that question. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t care if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the_big_shrug"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4516","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=4516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4517,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4516\/revisions\/4517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}