{"id":4559,"date":"2009-03-19T08:07:05","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T13:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=4559"},"modified":"2009-03-19T08:07:05","modified_gmt":"2009-03-19T13:07:05","slug":"thought_for_the_day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/03\/thought_for_the_day.html","title":{"rendered":"Thought For The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/2009\/03\/18\/2009-03-18_citys_massive_budget_gap_hits_238b_servi-1.html\">keep in mind when reading this that the city budget for the next four or five years* is supposed to hover between $60 and $70 billion<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The state Financial Control Board, which studies the city budget to prevent another 1970s-style brush with bankruptcy, said New York must plug a $23.8 billion hole.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s more than twice the size of the budget gap Mayor Bloomberg projected less than two months ago.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>*<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/html\/omb\/downloads\/pdf\/sum1_09.pdf\">Check it (.pdf)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And keep in mind when reading this that the city budget for the next four or five years* is supposed to hover between $60 and $70 billion: The state Financial Control Board, which studies the city budget to prevent another 1970s-style brush with bankruptcy, said New York must plug a $23.8 billion hole. That&#8217;s more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-follow_the_money","category-things_that_make_you_go_oy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4559","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=4559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4560,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4559\/revisions\/4560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}