{"id":953,"date":"2006-04-11T09:35:08","date_gmt":"2006-04-11T17:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/04\/hed_be_a_martyr_at_this_point_if_only_anyone_actually_cared.html"},"modified":"2006-04-11T09:35:08","modified_gmt":"2006-04-11T17:35:08","slug":"hed_be_a_martyr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/04\/hed_be_a_martyr.html","title":{"rendered":"He&#8217;d Be A Martyr At This Point If Only Anyone Actually Cared"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TWU Local 100 President Roger Toussaint <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/local\/story\/407840p-345260c.html\">was sentenced to ten days in jail and fined $1,000 for his part in calling a strike last December<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Eileen Long &#8212; mother of Firefighter Matthew Long, who was struck and severely injured by a private charter bus while bicycling to work because of the strike &#8212; said she wished the punishment was harsher. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think 10 days is enough,&#8221; she said. &#8220;My son has been in the hospital for more than 100 days.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But Assemblyman Roger Green (D-Brooklyn) said the jail sentence will boost Toussaint&#8217;s status as &#8220;rock star&#8221; among some working people.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TWU Local 100 President Roger Toussaint was sentenced to ten days in jail and fined $1,000 for his part in calling a strike last December: Eileen Long &#8212; mother of Firefighter Matthew Long, who was struck and severely injured by a private charter bus while bicycling to work because of the strike &#8212; said she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insert_muted_trumpets_sad_wahwah_here"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953","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=953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}