{"id":7039,"date":"2012-03-03T11:17:13","date_gmt":"2012-03-03T16:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=7039"},"modified":"2012-03-03T11:17:13","modified_gmt":"2012-03-03T16:17:13","slug":"c_something_say_something","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2012\/03\/c_something_say_something.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;C&#8221; Something, Say Something"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2011\/01\/restaurant_inspection_letter_grades_inflated_higher_than_a_harvard_undergraduates_report_card.html\">grade inflation<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2011\/07\/thinking_twice_about_c-food.html\">improbable scores<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2012\/02\/if_i_had_a_dime_for_every_time_a_guy_said_that_latex_just_didnt_feel_right.html\">restaurateurs ignoring dumb rules<\/a> and now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/local\/rated_assist_T4QQe1SEBqiiqH02fLltrI\">other restaurateurs apparently can have a letter grade changed without the fuss of a hearing<\/a>. Perhaps the restaurant letter grade system is less useful than this administration&#8217;s Simplicists believed:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>One of the city&#8217;s highest-end restaurants won&#8217;t have to post a dreaded &#8220;grade pending&#8221; sign next to its three-star Michelin rating thanks to a well-placed call to the Health Department.<\/p>\n<p>Officials downgraded violations issued on Jan. 31 to Per Se, a big-bucks temple of the culinary arts in the Time Warner Center at Columbus Circle, so that it could post the top sanitary grade of &#8220;A&#8221; even though an inspector slapped the eatery with a &#8220;B.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between grade inflation, improbable scores, restaurateurs ignoring dumb rules and now other restaurateurs apparently can have a letter grade changed without the fuss of a hearing. Perhaps the restaurant letter grade system is less useful than this administration&#8217;s Simplicists believed: One of the city&#8217;s highest-end restaurants won&#8217;t have to post a dreaded &#8220;grade pending&#8221; sign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feed","category-follow_the_money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7039","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=7039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7040,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7039\/revisions\/7040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}