{"id":6724,"date":"2011-09-06T08:58:09","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T13:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=6724"},"modified":"2011-09-06T08:58:09","modified_gmt":"2011-09-06T13:58:09","slug":"if_you_had_only_asked_i_would_have_told_you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2011\/09\/if_you_had_only_asked_i_would_have_told_you.html","title":{"rendered":"If You Had Only Asked, I Would Have Told You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when people &#8212; some of whom you believed to be very intelligent, perhaps &#8212; liked to ask-say during the 2009 election something along the lines of &#8220;Well, who <em>else<\/em> could possibly do the job of mayor?&#8221; as if to imply that he was the only one capable of doing it? That sense of municipal entitlement was just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/local\/brooklyn\/defiant_mike_fesses_955bQVlRtOOIbhCiIDivOO\">a tease<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;I always assumed that it would come out, but it&#8217;s not my responsibility to spread a story,&#8221; Bloomberg said, before carrying on with his holiday weekend at the Hampton Classic horse show in Bridgehampton.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when people &#8212; some of whom you believed to be very intelligent, perhaps &#8212; liked to ask-say during the 2009 election something along the lines of &#8220;Well, who else could possibly do the job of mayor?&#8221; as if to imply that he was the only one capable of doing it? That sense of municipal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jerk_move"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6724","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=6724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6725,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6724\/revisions\/6725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}