{"id":5973,"date":"2010-05-04T07:29:57","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T12:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=5973"},"modified":"2010-05-04T07:58:03","modified_gmt":"2010-05-04T12:58:03","slug":"now_that_the_storyline_is_intact_we_can_make_it_look_like_24_again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/05\/now_that_the_storyline_is_intact_we_can_make_it_look_like_24_again.html","title":{"rendered":"Now That The Storyline Is Intact, We Can Make It Look Like 24 Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that it&#8217;s clear that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2010\/05\/03\/eveningnews\/main6457014.shtml\">the mayor was wrong<\/a> (and our apologies to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicbroadcasting.net\/wxxi\/news.newsmain\/article\/0\/0\/1644253\/US\/NY.governor.calls.failed.car.bomb.act.of.terrorism\">the governor<\/a> for doubting his national security intelligence credentials), and that this was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/2010\/05\/03\/2010-05-03_times_square_car_bomb_square_evidence_points_to_overseas_terrorist_involvement_w.htm\">Full-Fledged Terrorism With International Links!<\/a>, it&#8217;s important to raise the stakes again &#8212; try <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/2010\/05\/04\/2010-05-04_came_close_to_disaster_says_expert.html\">freaking the fuck out of everyone for no fucking reason<\/a>, to start:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The car bomb planted in Times Square came within a &#8220;millisecond&#8221; of causing &#8220;mass casualties&#8221; with a 30-foot high fireball, an explosives expert said.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Barry, a retired NYPD bomb squad supervisor and the head of the International Association of Bomb Technicians and Investigators, painted a gruesome picture of what might have been if the bomb had gone off Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Several hundred&#8221; could have been killed or maimed by a fireball exploding from the Nissan Pathfinder found loaded down with firecrackers, fertilizer, gasoline, propane and alarm clocks.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/05\/if_this_had_been_24_you_would_have_had_to_wait_until_netflix_delivered_the_second_disc_before_the_president_even_found_out_about_the_threat.html\">A &#8220;millisecond&#8221;<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that it&#8217;s clear that the mayor was wrong (and our apologies to the governor for doubting his national security intelligence credentials), and that this was Full-Fledged Terrorism With International Links!, it&#8217;s important to raise the stakes again &#8212; try freaking the fuck out of everyone for no fucking reason, to start: The car bomb [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,43,58,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everyone_is_to_blame_here","category-fear_mongering","category-makes_jack_bauer_scream_dammit","category-new_york_daily_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5973","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=5973"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5975,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5973\/revisions\/5975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}