{"id":84,"date":"2004-12-30T12:16:25","date_gmt":"2004-12-30T20:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2004\/12\/contrite_snapple_execs_grovel_staten_island_says_drop_dead.html"},"modified":"2004-12-30T12:16:25","modified_gmt":"2004-12-30T20:16:25","slug":"contrite_snappl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/12\/contrite_snappl.html","title":{"rendered":"Contrite Snapple Execs Grovel; Staten Island Says &#8220;Drop Dead&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Snapple vs. Staten Island <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/front\/story\/266727p-228387c.html\">update<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Snapple executives were doing everything they could yesterday to prove they aren&#8217;t all wet when it comes to Staten Island.<\/p>\n<p>The day after they removed a jab about the borough from their Web site, company officials called local politicians to apologize.<\/p>\n<p>But City Councilman James Oddo (R-S.I.) still found the humor hard to swallow and wanted to make a point.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When faced with ignorance, disrespect or worse, you need to stand up to it and call it out,&#8221; Oddo said before he and state Sen. Diane Savino (D-Brooklyn, S.I.) poured a bottle of Snapple Iced Tea down a sewer drain in Grant City.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Right down the sewer &#8212; where it belongs!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snapple vs. Staten Island update: Snapple executives were doing everything they could yesterday to prove they aren&#8217;t all wet when it comes to Staten Island. The day after they removed a jab about the borough from their Web site, company officials called local politicians to apologize. But City Councilman James Oddo (R-S.I.) still found the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-staten_island"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","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=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}