{"id":4866,"date":"2009-05-19T08:24:55","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T13:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=4866"},"modified":"2009-05-19T08:24:55","modified_gmt":"2009-05-19T13:24:55","slug":"sarcasm_is_a_symptom_of_a_populace_that_is_beaten_down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/05\/sarcasm_is_a_symptom_of_a_populace_that_is_beaten_down.html","title":{"rendered":"Sarcasm Is A Symptom Of A Populace That Is Beaten Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/05\/19\/nyregion\/19nyc.html\">sarcasm is a sickness<\/a> (&#8220;We don&#8217;t have nearly enough of your campaign offices in our neighborhoods. Really, we don&#8217;t.&#8221;). Sadly, <a href=\"http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/05\/18\/bounced-check-and-big-raise-in-campaign-filings\/\">the only cure is more Weiner<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Representative Anthony D. Weiner has put himself into the maybe category for the 2009 mayor&#8217;s race. <\/p>\n<p>So why is he suddenly renting a campaign office? In May, Mr. Weiner spent $8,215 for space in an S. L. Green building in Midtown. <\/p>\n<p>Most leases for commercial office space are long-term (for a year, at least) &#8212; a curious commitment for a man who has called himself a &#8220;quasi candidate.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>A spokeswoman for Mr. Weiner, Marie Ternes, said the lawmaker &#8220;has five employees and a multimillion-dollar organization. Of course he needs an office.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, sarcasm is a sickness (&#8220;We don&#8217;t have nearly enough of your campaign offices in our neighborhoods. Really, we don&#8217;t.&#8221;). Sadly, the only cure is more Weiner: Representative Anthony D. Weiner has put himself into the maybe category for the 2009 mayor&#8217;s race. So why is he suddenly renting a campaign office? In May, Mr. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4866","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=4866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4867,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4866\/revisions\/4867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}