{"id":5378,"date":"2009-09-11T22:11:30","date_gmt":"2009-09-12T03:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=5378"},"modified":"2009-09-11T22:11:30","modified_gmt":"2009-09-12T03:11:30","slug":"eight_years_later_scoreboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/09\/eight_years_later_scoreboard.html","title":{"rendered":"Eight Years Later, Scoreboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time was, the government of Afghanistan harbored terrorists that cost us thousands and thousands of lives and trillions and trillions of dollars. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.com\/2009\/real-estate\/afghanistan-mission-un-buys-42-m-trump-condo-peacefulness-and-views\">Now they&#8217;re propping up our flagging real estate market<\/a>. America, fuck yeah:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The Permanent Mission of Afghanistan to the United Nations has a lovely new apartment. According to two deeds filed Friday, the group spent $4,235,000 on a 2,840-square-foot apartment at Trump World Tower, plus a $5.4 million commercial space at 633 Third Avenue. <\/p>\n<p>H.E. Zahir Tanin, whose title is Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to the United Nations, is listed in the deeds. &#8220;We did purchase a residence for the ambassador,&#8221; his assistant said. She said the office space is &#8220;going to be used both for the Consulate and the Permanent Mission to the United Nations. We are two separate things, but they&#8217;re both part of the government of Afghanistan, and it was the government of Afghanistan that&#8217;s making these purchases.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time was, the government of Afghanistan harbored terrorists that cost us thousands and thousands of lives and trillions and trillions of dollars. Now they&#8217;re propping up our flagging real estate market. America, fuck yeah: The Permanent Mission of Afghanistan to the United Nations has a lovely new apartment. According to two deeds filed Friday, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-huzzah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5378","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=5378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5379,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5378\/revisions\/5379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}