{"id":6689,"date":"2011-08-26T14:03:45","date_gmt":"2011-08-26T19:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=6689"},"modified":"2011-08-26T14:03:45","modified_gmt":"2011-08-26T19:03:45","slug":"smoke_em_if_you_got_em","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2011\/08\/smoke_em_if_you_got_em.html","title":{"rendered":"Smoke &#8216;Em If You Got &#8216;Em"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can never be too casual with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/08\/27\/nyregion\/new-york-city-begins-evacuations-before-hurricane.html\">mandatory evacuations of large sections of the city<\/a> when you have an entire Office of Emergency Management ready to roll:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg ordered a mandatory evacuation &#8212; something he said the city had never done before &#8212; of coastal areas in Brooklyn; Queens, including all of the Rockaways; and Staten Island, along with Battery Park City and the financial district in Lower Manhattan and Governor&#8217;s Island. The evacuation covered 250,000 people who, he said, should get out before the storm swept in.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seems like an odd thing upon which to stake your mayoral legacy. Mandatory evacuations? What is this, the Outer Banks? I know there&#8217;s that whole <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/citywide\/12-27-10\/index.htm\">snow storm<\/a> they need to atone for, but is this really necessary?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can never be too casual with mandatory evacuations of large sections of the city when you have an entire Office of Emergency Management ready to roll: Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg ordered a mandatory evacuation &#8212; something he said the city had never done before &#8212; of coastal areas in Brooklyn; Queens, including all of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,79,31,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-follow_the_money","category-i_call_bullshit","category-the_weather","category-were_all_gonna_die"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6689","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=6689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6690,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6689\/revisions\/6690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}