{"id":7059,"date":"2012-03-08T12:54:30","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T17:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=7059"},"modified":"2012-03-08T12:54:30","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T17:54:30","slug":"looming_civil_war_over_trees_threatens_to_take_root","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2012\/03\/looming_civil_war_over_trees_threatens_to_take_root.html","title":{"rendered":"Looming Civil War Over Trees Threatens To Take Root"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Staten Island, battle lines are drawn and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.silive.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2012\/03\/on_staten_islands_slater_boule.html\">officials are worried about what could happen<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Seeking a compromise between the city and his constituents, Councilman Oddo feels there ought to be some exceptions to the no-refusal policy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe in trees. I love trees. But let&#8217;s not spill blood over trees,&#8221; Oddo said. &#8220;Don&#8217;t cause needless angst&#8221; in achieving the million-trees goal, he added.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2011\/07\/plant_first_ask_questions_about_pruning_later.html\">Plant First, Ask Questions About Pruning Later<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/06\/you_say_you_dont_want_it_but_then_you_slip_it_on_in.html\">You Say You Don&#8217;t Want It But Then You Slip It On In<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/02\/if_you_times_that_by_a_million_thats_a_billion_dollars.html\">&#8220;If You Times That By A Million That&#8217;s A Billion Dollars&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Staten Island, battle lines are drawn and officials are worried about what could happen: Seeking a compromise between the city and his constituents, Councilman Oddo feels there ought to be some exceptions to the no-refusal policy. &#8220;I believe in trees. I love trees. But let&#8217;s not spill blood over trees,&#8221; Oddo said. &#8220;Don&#8217;t cause [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-staten_island"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7059","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=7059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7060,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7059\/revisions\/7060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}