{"id":5716,"date":"2010-01-19T08:24:12","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T13:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=5716"},"modified":"2010-01-19T08:24:12","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T13:24:12","slug":"third_term_meltdown_watch_overwrought_historical_comparisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/01\/third_term_meltdown_watch_overwrought_historical_comparisons.html","title":{"rendered":"Third Term Meltdown Watch: Overwrought Historical Comparisons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ll know it&#8217;s all over when the mayor starts invoking 1930s Germany, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/education\/2010\/01\/19\/2010-01-19_charter_bill_an_insult_to_mlk_sez_mike__then_signs_off_on_it.html\">calling a charter school bill an &#8220;insult&#8221; to MLK, Jr. on MLK, Jr. Day is getting there<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Mayor Bloomberg Monday called a charter school bill an &#8220;insult&#8221; to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.&#8217;s legacy.<\/p>\n<p>The bill, which was crafted by the state Legislature&#8217;s Democratic leadership, would allow the number of charter schools in the state to double to 400.<\/p>\n<p>But the mayor slammed it for making the creation of new charters too cumbersome.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ll know it&#8217;s all over when the mayor starts invoking 1930s Germany, but calling a charter school bill an &#8220;insult&#8221; to MLK, Jr. on MLK, Jr. Day is getting there: Mayor Bloomberg Monday called a charter school bill an &#8220;insult&#8221; to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.&#8217;s legacy. The bill, which was crafted by 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":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-youre_kidding_right"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5716","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=5716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5717,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5716\/revisions\/5717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}