{"id":6975,"date":"2012-02-16T07:56:48","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T12:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=6975"},"modified":"2012-02-16T07:56:48","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T12:56:48","slug":"because_the_only_thing_that_would_make_the_third_term_even_worse_is_if_he_skipped_out_on_it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2012\/02\/because_the_only_thing_that_would_make_the_third_term_even_worse_is_if_he_skipped_out_on_it.html","title":{"rendered":"Because The Only Thing That Would Make The Third Term Even Worse Is If He Skipped Out On It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To paraphrase Colin Powell, who paraphrased the Pottery Barn, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/local\/mayoral_spokesman_says_bloomberg_zdnNLohK5cdCA8ghU03QBN\">you break it, you own it<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>There are only a hand full of jobs that Mayor Bloomberg has publicly coveted and now one of them is open &#8212; presidency of the World Bank.<\/p>\n<p>But mayoral aides said Bloomberg &#8212; who still has more than 22 months left to go in his third term &#8212; won&#8217;t be rushing off a resume.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People have approached him many times,&#8221; said mayoral spokesman Stu Loeser. &#8220;People have asked his views on the World Bank. Intermediaries (have sounded him out) to see if he&#8217;s interested.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In each instance, Loeser said Bloomberg responded that&#8217;s he&#8217;s committed to completing his elective term.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To paraphrase Colin Powell, who paraphrased the Pottery Barn, you break it, you own it: There are only a hand full of jobs that Mayor Bloomberg has publicly coveted and now one of them is open &#8212; presidency of the World Bank. But mayoral aides said Bloomberg &#8212; who still has more than 22 months [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grrr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6975","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=6975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6976,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6975\/revisions\/6976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}