{"id":6895,"date":"2012-01-16T09:32:27","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T14:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=6895"},"modified":"2012-01-16T09:32:27","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T14:32:27","slug":"great_optics_lets_skip_the_details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2012\/01\/great_optics_lets_skip_the_details.html","title":{"rendered":"Great Optics! Let&#8217;s Skip The Details . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/local\/brooklyn\/ows_home_invasion_z9ApqDP6Q0boFviq8CjvAL\">I guess it seemed like a good idea at the time<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Occupy Wall Street protesters announced with great fanfare last month that they moved a homeless family into a &#8220;foreclosed&#8221; Brooklyn home &#8212; even though they knew the house belonged to a struggling single father desperately trying to renegotiate his mortgage, The Post has learned.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>[The father] even attended the Dec. 6 press conference at the house when the [homeless family was] introduced. He wanted to tell reporters his story.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[OWS] told me not to talk to them [reporters] because they [OWS] had an offer for me,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>At a second meeting after the press conference, however, organizers said they would not pay him for the house. At that point, he told them to leave.<\/p>\n<p>Inside the house the walls are knocked down and all of his belongings, including a stove, refrigerator and bedroom furniture, have been moved to the basement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m pissed off,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m trying to get my house back, and they&#8217;re trying to take it from me.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess it seemed like a good idea at the time: Occupy Wall Street protesters announced with great fanfare last month that they moved a homeless family into a &#8220;foreclosed&#8221; Brooklyn home &#8212; even though they knew the house belonged to a struggling single father desperately trying to renegotiate his mortgage, The Post has learned. [&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-6895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jerk_move"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6895","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=6895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6896,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6895\/revisions\/6896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}