{"id":7243,"date":"2012-11-02T11:13:34","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T16:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=7243"},"modified":"2012-11-02T11:18:17","modified_gmt":"2012-11-02T16:18:17","slug":"new_york_citys_transformation_to_giant_corporate_event_space_finally_complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2012\/11\/new_york_citys_transformation_to_giant_corporate_event_space_finally_complete.html","title":{"rendered":"New York City&#8217;s Transformation To Giant Corporate Event Space Finally Complete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you were wondering what the true purpose of municipal government is &#8212; serving its citizens or whoring itself for corporate donations &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/local\/this_is_no_way_to_get_us_up_running_egrMk4ukpzFCGhSF8oM5kN\">this should help set you straight<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>As hundreds of thousands of Big Apple residents suffer in homes left without power by Hurricane Sandy, two massive generators are being run 24\/7 in Central Park &#8212; to juice a media tent for Sunday&#8217;s New York City Marathon.<\/p>\n<p>And a third &#8220;backup&#8221; unit sits idle, in case one of the generators fails.<\/p>\n<p>The three diesel-powered generators crank out 800 kilowatts &#8212; enough to power 400 homes in ravaged areas like Staten Island, the Rockaways and downtown Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p>As of Friday morning, five generators sat outside of the park along with electrical stations and transformers.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the generators, a food services truck dropped off hundreds of cases of water . . .<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you were wondering what the true purpose of municipal government is &#8212; serving its citizens or whoring itself for corporate donations &#8212; this should help set you straight: As hundreds of thousands of Big Apple residents suffer in homes left without power by Hurricane Sandy, two massive generators are being run 24\/7 in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,68,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class_war","category-follow_the_money","category-just_horrible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7243","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=7243"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7246,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7243\/revisions\/7246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}