{"id":6599,"date":"2011-07-20T22:52:56","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T03:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=6599"},"modified":"2011-07-20T22:52:56","modified_gmt":"2011-07-21T03:52:56","slug":"things_not_worth_one_one-millionth_of_mental_space_include","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2011\/07\/things_not_worth_one_one-millionth_of_mental_space_include.html","title":{"rendered":"Things Not Worth One One-Millionth Of Mental Space Include . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>. . . <a href=\"http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/07\/20\/dont-be-blue-city-unveils-smurfs-week\/\">Smurf Week<\/a>, especially if we&#8217;re talking about anyone remotely involved in municipal government:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>City officials announced on Wednesday that next week would be Smurfs Week in New York City and that the Smurfs had been chosen as this year&#8217;s Get More NYC family ambassadors.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>Although there will also be Smurfs Week events in the Bronx and Brooklyn, there will be none in Staten Island or Queens, according to a map posted on NYC &#038; Company&#8217;s Web site. That omission was deemed &#8220;distressing&#8221; by Dan Andrews, a spokesman for the Queens borough president, Helen Marshall.<\/p>\n<p>When Ms. Marshall was notified, she lapsed into a bit of verse, saying: &#8220;Though only three apples high,\/ the Smurfs have left us high and dry.\/ The animators drew,\/ created a movie that almost seems true,\/ but have left us all blue.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Don&#8217;t borough presidents have more important things to think about? Oh wait . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. . . Smurf Week, especially if we&#8217;re talking about anyone remotely involved in municipal government: City officials announced on Wednesday that next week would be Smurfs Week in New York City and that the Smurfs had been chosen as this year&#8217;s Get More NYC family ambassadors. . . . Although there will also be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-follow_the_money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6599","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=6599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6600,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6599\/revisions\/6600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}