{"id":717,"date":"2006-02-20T08:25:45","date_gmt":"2006-02-20T16:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/02\/declaring_jihad_on_potholes.html"},"modified":"2006-02-20T08:25:45","modified_gmt":"2006-02-20T16:25:45","slug":"declaring_jihad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/02\/declaring_jihad.html","title":{"rendered":"Declaring Jihad On Potholes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Worst pun of the weekend is the Daily News&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/local\/story\/392338p-332752c.html\">&#8220;His Hole-y War&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Death to potholes!<\/p>\n<p>The city will begin a massive blitz today, dispatching 30 crews to fill more than 1,200 of the craters with 90 tons of asphalt each day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Potholes, potholes. Potholes, Potholes,&#8221; Mayor Bloomberg bemoaned on his weekly WABC-AM show yesterday. &#8220;There&#8217;s probably few more annoying things than driving down the street, hitting a pothole &#8212; and, sadly, potholes are probably always going to be with us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While the mild winter had reduced the number of street cavities, the city&#8217;s Department of Transportation remains committed to making the roads as smooth as possible, Bloomberg said.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>Transportation Commissioner Iris Weinshall conceded the seven-day-a-week blitz, slated to end in mid-March, could increase traffic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you get stuck in traffic a little bit this weekend and you see a crew working on the highway or on a street, don&#8217;t get so angry,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It&#8217;s because these guys are out there doing their jobs.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Applying the Anthraxical poetry technique to the situation results in the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>You Can Not Stop Us<br \/>We Have This Asphalt<br \/>You Die Now<br \/>Are You Afraid?<br \/>Death To Potholes<br \/>Death To Cave-Ins<br \/>Hizzoner Is Great<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Worst pun of the weekend is the Daily News&#8217; &#8220;His Hole-y War&#8221;: Death to potholes! The city will begin a massive blitz today, dispatching 30 crews to fill more than 1,200 of the craters with 90 tons of asphalt each day. &#8220;Potholes, potholes. Potholes, Potholes,&#8221; Mayor Bloomberg bemoaned on his weekly WABC-AM show yesterday. &#8220;There&#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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture_infrastructure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717","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=717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}