{"id":7660,"date":"2015-11-04T12:43:50","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T17:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=7660"},"modified":"2015-11-04T12:43:50","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T17:43:50","slug":"alternatively_maybe_public_advocates_are_the_problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2015\/11\/alternatively_maybe_public_advocates_are_the_problem.html","title":{"rendered":"Alternatively, Maybe Public Advocates Are The Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnainfo.com\/new-york\/20151104\/civic-center\/mayors-open-government-record-would-get-d-under-his-own-grading-system\">Perspective is everything<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>As public advocate, Bill de Blasio criticized city agencies for failing to answer Freedom of Information Law requests from media organizations and the public in a timely manner.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Transparency and responsiveness in government decisions and policies engenders trust in our democratic process,&#8221; he said in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>[. . .]<\/p>\n<p>So how would de Blasio rate his own administration using his own criteria?<\/p>\n<p>It turns out Public Advocate Bill de Blasio would have given Mayor Bill de Blasio a D.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perspective is everything: As public advocate, Bill de Blasio criticized city agencies for failing to answer Freedom of Information Law requests from media organizations and the public in a timely manner. &#8220;Transparency and responsiveness in government decisions and policies engenders trust in our democratic process,&#8221; he said in 2013. [. . .] So how would [&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-7660","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\/7660","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=7660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7661,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7660\/revisions\/7661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}