{"id":6367,"date":"2011-02-03T08:11:14","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T13:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=6367"},"modified":"2011-02-03T08:18:35","modified_gmt":"2011-02-03T13:18:35","slug":"third-term_malaise_alert_the_thin_line_between_faux_folksiness_and_lousy_grammar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2011\/02\/third-term_malaise_alert_the_thin_line_between_faux_folksiness_and_lousy_grammar.html","title":{"rendered":"Third-Term Malaise Alert: The Thin Line Between Faux Folksiness And Lousy Grammar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not so much a &#8220;you have to&#8221; scenario but rather a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/metropolis\/2011\/02\/02\/official-snow-day-bloomberg-tells-city-workers-to-disobey\/\">&#8220;you got to&#8221;<\/a> sort of thing &#8212; kind of like when Kenny Rogers sings &#8220;you got to know when to hold &#8217;em, know when to fold &#8217;em&#8221; in &#8220;The Gambler,&#8221; or when The Beatles sang &#8220;got to be a joker he just do what he please&#8221; in &#8220;Come Together&#8221; or even when Randy Newman snarked that when it comes to short people, &#8220;you got to pick &#8217;em up just to say hello&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>At his news conference Wednesday, the mayor appeared to have no patience for any employee who somehow missed his unannounced media appearances. &#8220;You got to listen,&#8221; he demanded.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2011\/02\/at_least_they_didnt_call_them_non-essential.html\">&#8220;At Least They Didn&#8217;t Call Them &#8216;Non-Essential'&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not so much a &#8220;you have to&#8221; scenario but rather a &#8220;you got to&#8221; sort of thing &#8212; kind of like when Kenny Rogers sings &#8220;you got to know when to hold &#8217;em, know when to fold &#8217;em&#8221; in &#8220;The Gambler,&#8221; or when The Beatles sang &#8220;got to be a joker he just do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-please_make_it_stop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6367","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=6367"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6369,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6367\/revisions\/6369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}