{"id":455,"date":"2005-10-31T10:28:21","date_gmt":"2005-10-31T18:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/10\/first_comes_your_balls_then_we_inflate_the_giant_rat.html"},"modified":"2005-10-31T10:28:21","modified_gmt":"2005-10-31T18:28:21","slug":"first_comes_you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/10\/first_comes_you.html","title":{"rendered":"First Comes Your Balls, Then We Inflate The Giant Rat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brooklyn Brewery founder <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nymetro.com\/nymetro\/news\/people\/columns\/intelligencer\/14955\/index.html\">Steve Hindy reminisces about his first time meeting local labor representatives<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>[Williamsburg] was a very different place [in 1996, when the brewery opened]. One day during construction, a bunch of union guys right out of <em>Good Fellas<\/em> showed up. One said, &#8220;We want J-O-B-S.&#8221; Their head guy &#8212; later indicted for labor bribery &#8212; said, &#8220;We put a picket up and no one&#8217;s gonna unload your trucks.&#8221; I promised them jobs on my next project. They went off to talk. I was sitting there shitting in my pants. One comes back, puts his hand on my thigh next to my balls, and says, &#8220;We&#8217;re gonna have to hurt you.&#8221; Then he says, &#8220;Just kiddin&#8217;! We&#8217;re gonna leave you alone. Next time you do something, we have to be part of it.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brooklyn Brewery founder Steve Hindy reminisces about his first time meeting local labor representatives: [Williamsburg] was a very different place [in 1996, when the brewery opened]. One day during construction, a bunch of union guys right out of Good Fellas showed up. One said, &#8220;We want J-O-B-S.&#8221; Their head guy &#8212; later indicted for labor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455","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=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}