{"id":171,"date":"2007-07-17T22:29:11","date_gmt":"2007-07-18T02:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/?p=171"},"modified":"2007-07-17T22:30:54","modified_gmt":"2007-07-18T02:30:54","slug":"argh-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/17\/argh-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"argh, politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi interwebs. I am angry. Why? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/07\/17\/nyregion\/17cnd-congestion.html?ref=nyregion\" target=\"_blank\">Because the stupid state government couldn&#8217;t get it together to agree to the mayor&#8217;s congestion pricing plan.<\/a> Yeah, I know that the mayor was antagonistic. And Republican. But I would be too (the former, not the latter!). How can there possibly be any question as to whether this is a good idea??? As a person who both breathes the air AND will be paying more to ride the subway, I am hopping mad!<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re not convinced that NYC needs fewer cars, check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nycstreets.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">NYC Streets Renaissance<\/a>. It&#8217;s chock full of testimonials from other cities that decreased car traffic, and great ideas for helping NYC do the same. If you&#8217;re in Brooklyn, head on over to the Central Library (you know you are going there for books, anyway!) and check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org\/events\/exhibitions\/2007\/livablestreets.jsp\" target=\"_blank\">Livable Streets in Brooklyn<\/a> exhibit.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, end of rant, I&#8217;ll silence my inner Al Gore now. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi interwebs. I am angry. Why? Because the stupid state government couldn&#8217;t get it together to agree to the mayor&#8217;s congestion pricing plan. Yeah, I know that the mayor was antagonistic. And Republican. But I would be too (the former, not the latter!). How can there possibly be any question as to whether this is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}