{"id":4754,"date":"2009-04-23T14:58:13","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T19:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=4754"},"modified":"2009-04-24T09:20:43","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T14:20:43","slug":"mayor_bloomberg_unsafe_for_children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/04\/mayor_bloomberg_unsafe_for_children.html","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Bloomberg: Unsafe For Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politickerny.com\/3214\/mayors-fear-goggles-explained\">Maybe he meant Mike Huckabee*<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>At a press conference in the Bronx to announce the opening of a new Home Depot store, Michael Bloomberg was [p]resented with the company&#8217;s trademark orange apron, but declined to put on a pair of safety goggles, saying, &#8220;The last guy to put on a pair was Dukakis.&#8221; (Close enough?) <\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg was offered the goggles by a Home Depot manager as the mayor and other officials used a small electric saw to cut a piece of wood (the Home Depot version of a ribbon-cutting ceremony).<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>*<a href=\"http:\/\/thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com\/2007\/11\/12\/on-the-road-huckabee-in-iowa\/\">As in<\/a>. Because he certainly didn&#8217;t mean President Obama, <a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/images?q=obama%20%22safety%20goggles%22&#038;hl=en&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;tab=ni\">who looks cool in his safety goggles<\/a>. (Then again, candidates refusing to compromise their coolness by taking proper safety precautions <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democraticunderground.com\/discuss\/duboard.php?az=view_all&#038;address=118x89575\">seems to have a long history<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe he meant Mike Huckabee*: At a press conference in the Bronx to announce the opening of a new Home Depot store, Michael Bloomberg was [p]resented with the company&#8217;s trademark orange apron, but declined to put on a pair of safety goggles, saying, &#8220;The last guy to put on a pair was Dukakis.&#8221; (Close enough?) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jerk_move"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4754","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=4754"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4759,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4754\/revisions\/4759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}