{"id":7157,"date":"2012-04-16T10:03:24","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T15:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=7157"},"modified":"2012-04-16T10:03:24","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T15:03:24","slug":"the_scourge_of_occupy_chestnut_street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2012\/04\/the_scourge_of_occupy_chestnut_street.html","title":{"rendered":"The Scourge Of Occupy Chestnut Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/local\/squirrels_go_nuts_M6ZJs10AUveiFaHOx51f1N\">Because ultimately they&#8217;re just rats with good P.R.<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>They are marauding gangs of troublemakers who set fire to cars, cut electrical wires and cause power outages, evading capture by scaling walls and climbing trees.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s like Occupy Wall Street here,&#8221; lamented [the] president of the under-siege co-op at Glen Oaks Village. &#8220;It&#8217;s gotten worse in the past six months. We&#8217;re getting calls that they are in people&#8217;s apartments.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And then the kicker:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>But while the Queens co-op residents being terrorized by the daredevil vandals say they know exactly who their tormentors are, they insist that they&#8217;re helpless in stopping the crime wave &#8212; because the suspects are sex-happy squirrels.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because ultimately they&#8217;re just rats with good P.R.: They are marauding gangs of troublemakers who set fire to cars, cut electrical wires and cause power outages, evading capture by scaling walls and climbing trees. . . . &#8220;It&#8217;s like Occupy Wall Street here,&#8221; lamented [the] president of the under-siege co-op at Glen Oaks Village. &#8220;It&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grrr","category-queens","category-the_natural_world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7157","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=7157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7158,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7157\/revisions\/7158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}