{"id":4664,"date":"2009-04-09T23:14:24","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T04:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=4664"},"modified":"2009-04-09T23:35:14","modified_gmt":"2009-04-10T04:35:14","slug":"chekhovs_gun_applied_to_budget_threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/04\/chekhovs_gun_applied_to_budget_threats.html","title":{"rendered":"Chekhov&#8217;s Gun Applied To Budget Threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the playwright said, &#8220;One must not put <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.amny.com\/entertainment\/urbanite\/blog\/2009\/04\/_faced_with_a_worse.html\">a<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/article.php?id=CNG.f385c2ed911fca31a34d5da9783ee7aa.551&#038;show_article=1\">loaded<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/US\/04\/09\/nyc.layoffs\/\">rifle<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/marketsNewsUS\/idUKN0853161720090408\">on<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/30112001\/\">the<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2009-04\/09\/content_11153558.htm\">stage<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail.aspx?id=90929&#038;sectionid=3510203\">if<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metro.us\/us\/article\/2009\/04\/09\/05\/4329-82\/index.xml\">no<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ny1.com\/Content\/news_beats\/politics\/97067\/city-says-more-job-cuts-are-likely\/Default.aspx\">one<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ny1.com\/Content\/news_beats\/politics\/97140\/bloomberg-defends-layoff-threat\/Default.aspx\">is<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/ap\/financialnews\/D97EDSK02.htm\">thinking<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/2009\/04\/09\/2009-04-09_cut_deeper_mayor_warns_unions.html\">of<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/afp\/article\/ALeqM5jhRgjfe1IV0byVnZLiOcX_e9RFyA\">firing<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/news\/articles\/128346\">it<\/a>.&#8221; Otherwise, you&#8217;ll look like a manipulative third-tier politician destined for nothing better than chief executive of some sclerotic town somewhere between Boston and D.C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the playwright said, &#8220;One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it.&#8221; Otherwise, you&#8217;ll look like a manipulative third-tier politician destined for nothing better than chief executive of some sclerotic town somewhere between Boston and D.C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fear_mongering","category-follow_the_money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4664","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=4664"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4666,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4664\/revisions\/4666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}