{"id":5020,"date":"2009-06-22T08:09:48","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T13:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=5020"},"modified":"2009-06-22T08:09:48","modified_gmt":"2009-06-22T13:09:48","slug":"your_self-reflexive_mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/06\/your_self-reflexive_mayor.html","title":{"rendered":"Your Self-Reflexive Mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/06212009\/news\/regionalnews\/mike_gets_ed__test_mileage_175357.htm\">Looks innocent now<\/a>, but get a couple more examples* and you&#8217;ll have a real story:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Mayor Bloomberg got some free publicity on the state-created English Regents exam this month, scoring a positive mention in a reading-comprehension passage. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;New York&#8217;s Mayor Michael Bloomberg has spearheaded an ambitious plan, unveiled in 2002, to ring Manhattan with recreational, multi-use paths and greenways to make the entire waterfront accessible to walkers and cyclists,&#8221; gushed paragraph 14 of the mandatory passage, read by about 150,000 high school sophomores and juniors across the state this month. <\/p>\n<p>After students &#8212; all too young to vote for Bloomberg, who is running for a third term &#8212; read the passage, an excerpt from a September 2006 Environmental Defense Fund article, they had to answer nine multiple-choice questions and write an essay.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>*Not sure if <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wnyc.org\/news\/2009\/03\/18\/about-those-subway-ads-for-the-schools\/\">this<\/a> counts or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks innocent now, but get a couple more examples* and you&#8217;ll have a real story: Mayor Bloomberg got some free publicity on the state-created English Regents exam this month, scoring a positive mention in a reading-comprehension passage. &#8220;New York&#8217;s Mayor Michael Bloomberg has spearheaded an ambitious plan, unveiled in 2002, to ring Manhattan with recreational, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-follow_the_money","category-thats_an_outrage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5020","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=5020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5021,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5020\/revisions\/5021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}