{"id":5005,"date":"2009-06-18T07:59:39","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T12:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=5005"},"modified":"2009-06-18T07:59:39","modified_gmt":"2009-06-18T12:59:39","slug":"three_how_about_fore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/06\/three_how_about_fore.html","title":{"rendered":"Three? How About &#8220;Fore&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/02\/weiner_that_guy_in_politics_that_guy_on_the_field.html\">Anthony Weiner sports stories<\/a> have lost their relevance, I guess we now have to ponder <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/06\/18\/nyregion\/18bloomberg.html\">the mayor&#8217;s golf game<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>As the mayor&#8217;s game improves, ever so incrementally, golf is finding its way into his conversations, public and private, as he invokes the sport as a metaphor for government and life. <\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>Still, his unbridled fervor for a game associated with the country club set has occasionally landed him in hot water. During his weekly radio address in 2006, Mr. Bloomberg was asked to name a typical job performed by illegal immigrants. He immediately thought of golf.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You and I are beneficiaries of these jobs,&#8221; the mayor told his co-host, John Gambling, adding, &#8220;Who takes care of the greens and the fairways in your golf course?&#8221; The remarks drew howls of protests. <\/p>\n<p>And at a civic meeting in Canarsie, a working-class section of Brooklyn, earlier this year, homeowners interrogated the mayor about rising taxes and living costs. At one point, Mr. Bloomberg asked how many golfers were in the audience &#8212; and the answer appeared to be zero.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since Anthony Weiner sports stories have lost their relevance, I guess we now have to ponder the mayor&#8217;s golf game: As the mayor&#8217;s game improves, ever so incrementally, golf is finding its way into his conversations, public and private, as he invokes the sport as a metaphor for government and life. . . . Still, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","category-things_that_make_you_go_oy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5005","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=5005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5006,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5005\/revisions\/5006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}