{"id":11616,"date":"2009-11-03T23:36:24","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T04:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=11616"},"modified":"2009-11-03T23:36:24","modified_gmt":"2009-11-04T04:36:24","slug":"bloomberg-wins-third-term-as-mayor-aint-democracy-grand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=11616","title":{"rendered":"Bloomberg Wins Third Term as Mayor &#8211; Ain&#8217;t democracy grand?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/04\/nyregion\/04mayor.html\">New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mr. Bloomberg &#8212; who persuaded the City Council to amend a law that would have restricted him to two terms and then spent some $90 million of his personal fortune on his campaign &#8212; decisively defeated Comptroller William C. Thompson Jr., his Democratic rival.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Had Mr. Bloomberg purchased an equivalent role in a government opposed by DC he&#8217;d now be the target of a coup d&#8217;\u00e9tat.  Ain&#8217;t democracy grand?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times Mr. Bloomberg &#8212; who persuaded the City Council to amend a law that would have restricted him to two terms and then spent some $90 million of his personal fortune on his campaign &#8212; decisively defeated Comptroller &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=11616\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-31m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11616"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11621,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11616\/revisions\/11621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}