{"id":7490,"date":"2014-05-31T07:49:20","date_gmt":"2014-05-31T12:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=7490"},"modified":"2014-05-31T07:54:21","modified_gmt":"2014-05-31T12:54:21","slug":"metzitzah_bpeh_is_yiddish_for_tremendous_suckup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2014\/05\/metzitzah_bpeh_is_yiddish_for_tremendous_suckup.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Metzitzah B&#8217;Peh&#8221; Is Yiddish For &#8220;Tremendous Suckup&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The mayor who can be all things to all constituencies &#8212; including many seeming non-&#8220;progressive&#8221; ones, provided they deliver enough votes &#8212; perfects his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/05\/31\/nyregion\/given-another-chance-to-address-rabbis-remarks-de-blasio-sidesteps.html\">&#8220;wondrous rhetorical two-step&#8221;<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;First of all, I do not want to get into theoreticals,&#8221; he replied. &#8220;I did not hear the comments clearly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Did not hear, got no time, bye-bye. Mr. de Blasio, who once dodged out the door rather than face questions about his driver&#8217;s running a stop sign, has an aversion to being pinned down.<\/p>\n<p>The Observer reporter pressed on. Would you have spoken up had you heard the rabbi&#8217;s specific remarks?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With all due respect, my friend,&#8221; he began &#8212; the mayor&#8217;s use of &#8220;my friend&#8221; was more like a hurricane siren than a sign of bonhomie &#8212; &#8220;I did not hear the comments clearly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added that he had &#8220;not seen a transcript&#8221; and that it was &#8220;really theoretical&#8221; to ask &#8220;someone&#8221; these sort of questions. &#8220;I just think that&#8217;s not fair,&#8221; he said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mayor who can be all things to all constituencies &#8212; including many seeming non-&#8220;progressive&#8221; ones, provided they deliver enough votes &#8212; perfects his &#8220;wondrous rhetorical two-step&#8221;: &#8220;First of all, I do not want to get into theoreticals,&#8221; he replied. &#8220;I did not hear the comments clearly.&#8221; Did not hear, got no time, bye-bye. Mr. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-things_that_make_you_go_oy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7490","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=7490"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7493,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7490\/revisions\/7493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}