{"id":6043,"date":"2010-06-05T00:17:18","date_gmt":"2010-06-05T05:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=6043"},"modified":"2010-06-05T00:23:01","modified_gmt":"2010-06-05T05:23:01","slug":"the_greatest_third_term_ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/06\/the_greatest_third_term_ever.html","title":{"rendered":"The Greatest Third Term Ever!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No sarcastic tone here, except which to say that it should depress anyone to see a mayor stooping this low to attract an NBA free agent, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/06\/05\/nyregion\/05lebron.html\">even if that free agent is King James<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>On Thursday, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg released his own appeal to Mr. James: a 49-second pitch in which he cited Clyde Frazier and Willis Reed and beseeched Mr. James to &#8220;come write the next chapter in N.Y.C. basketball history.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The somewhat stilted video &#8212; the mayor looks as if he has never held, let alone shot, a basketball before &#8212; is part of a media blitz that will eventually include a Facebook page, a live Twitter feed, professionally silk-screened &#8220;C&#8217;mon LeBron&#8221; T-shirts, digital messages in Times Square (and in taxicabs), even fan kits available for download on the Internet.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And that&#8217;s what we got rid of term limits for.<\/p>\n<p>Please LeBron, stay in Cleveland . . . at least there they&#8217;ll give a fuck about you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No sarcastic tone here, except which to say that it should depress anyone to see a mayor stooping this low to attract an NBA free agent, even if that free agent is King James: On Thursday, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg released his own appeal to Mr. James: a 49-second pitch in which he cited Clyde [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just_horrible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6043","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=6043"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6045,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6043\/revisions\/6045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}