{"id":24381,"date":"2014-02-22T10:47:14","date_gmt":"2014-02-22T15:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=24381"},"modified":"2014-02-22T10:57:19","modified_gmt":"2014-02-22T15:57:19","slug":"christie-watch-ongoing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/02\/22\/christie-watch-ongoing\/","title":{"rendered":"Christie watch ongoing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The greatest crisis facing the American people today is apparently the nefarious doings of New Jersey Governor Chris &#8220;Bridgegate&#8221; Christie. If you, like all right-thinking Americans want to know where Christie is and what he&#8217;s up to at any given moment, <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2014\/02\/20\/the-christie-tracker-is-a-gods.html\" target=\"_blank\">there&#8217;s a website you need to follow<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Carla is bemused by my obsession with the New Jersey Governor Christie Christie Bridgegate scandal. I can&#8217;t really explain it myself, other than to say it is interesting to watch public servants who can&#8217;t keep their psychopathy under control and shut down the world&#8217;s busiest bridge traffic out of spite. (I&#8217;m not saying Christie shut the traffic down, I&#8217;m saying the bad apples he surrounded himself did).<\/p>\n<p>Until now, I&#8217;ve had to keep myself satisfied with Rachel Maddow&#8217;s excellent, unrelenting, obsessive coverage of the scandal on her nightly show, but now I can get mini-fixes throughout the day, thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/project.wnyc.org\/christie\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Christie Tracker<\/a>, a website created by Matt Katz of WNYC. I&#8217;m so excited! <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/project.wnyc.org\/christie\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Christie-Tracker-website.png\" alt=\"Christie Tracker website\" width=\"739\" height=\"504\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Christie-Tracker-website.png 739w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Christie-Tracker-website-150x102.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Christie-Tracker-website-480x327.png 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 739px) 100vw, 739px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure there must be dedicated fans of Rob Ford&#8217;s antics who are already trying to put together a similar tracking website for Toronto&#8217;s newsworthy mayor&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The greatest crisis facing the American people today is apparently the nefarious doings of New Jersey Governor Chris &#8220;Bridgegate&#8221; Christie. If you, like all right-thinking Americans want to know where Christie is and what he&#8217;s up to at any given moment, there&#8217;s a website you need to follow: Carla is bemused by my obsession with [&hellip;]<\/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":""},"categories":[53,13],"tags":[619,413],"class_list":["post-24381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-usa","tag-newjersey","tag-scandal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6lf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24381"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24385,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24381\/revisions\/24385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}