{"id":4823,"date":"2009-05-03T10:26:40","date_gmt":"2009-05-03T15:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=4823"},"modified":"2009-05-03T10:26:40","modified_gmt":"2009-05-03T15:26:40","slug":"forecast_for_fy2010_more_killer_trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/05\/forecast_for_fy2010_more_killer_trees.html","title":{"rendered":"Forecast For FY2010: More Killer Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To paraphrase <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0139654\/quotes\">Denzel Washington in Training Day<\/a>, First you <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/04\/the_luxury_of_trees.html\">plant them<\/a>, then you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/05032009\/news\/regionalnews\/budget_cutters_nip_tree_pruning_167437.htm\">prune them<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em> The doomsday budget Mayor Bloomberg unveiled Friday calls for pruning trees less frequently &#8212; one of many belt-tightening measures planned for the 2010 fiscal year.<\/p>\n<p>While the trimmed-down trimmings will save $1 million, the city has also scheduled a massive greening of streets and parks. According to its capital plan, more than $250 million is earmarked to plant new trees over the next 10 years.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To paraphrase Denzel Washington in Training Day, First you plant them, then you prune them: The doomsday budget Mayor Bloomberg unveiled Friday calls for pruning trees less frequently &#8212; one of many belt-tightening measures planned for the 2010 fiscal year. While the trimmed-down trimmings will save $1 million, the city has also scheduled a massive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-follow_the_money","category-see_the_thing_is_was"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4823","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=4823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4824,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4823\/revisions\/4824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}