{"id":555,"date":"2005-12-22T09:51:04","date_gmt":"2005-12-22T17:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/12\/standing_with_the_working_man_by_fucking_over_the_working_man.html"},"modified":"2005-12-22T09:51:04","modified_gmt":"2005-12-22T17:51:04","slug":"standing_with_t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/12\/standing_with_t.html","title":{"rendered":"Standing With The Working Man By Fucking Over The Working Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Times, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/12\/22\/nyregion\/22cnd-strike.html\/partner\/rssnyt\">stating the obvious<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The burden of the strike fell unevenly upon New Yorkers of different classes.<\/p>\n<p>For many living in Manhattan, the strike remained an inconvenience, not a hardship. Some, like Dave Halman, a 35-year-old Wall Street banker, worked from home the first day. On Wednesday, he was out on West 96th Street waiting for a company shuttle. &#8220;It&#8217;s fine,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We went through the blackout, 9\/11 and now most people are taking this in stride.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But for many more, the impact was harsher. Stan Decker said he had walked nearly seven miles from Bensonhurst, Brooklyn to Jamaica, Queens. &#8220;They&#8217;re hurting the ordinary people, they&#8217;re not hurting the big shots,&#8221; Mr. Decker, 59, said of the union. A union member himself, he complained, &#8220;Everybody&#8217;s paying for health insurance. Why should they be different? When they overdo it like this, they hurt unions because if gives people a bad impression.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Times, stating the obvious: The burden of the strike fell unevenly upon New Yorkers of different classes. For many living in Manhattan, the strike remained an inconvenience, not a hardship. Some, like Dave Halman, a 35-year-old Wall Street banker, worked from home the first day. On Wednesday, he was out on West 96th Street [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grrr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","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=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}