{"id":320,"date":"2003-02-09T10:17:58","date_gmt":"2003-02-09T14:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=320"},"modified":"2007-10-07T11:50:49","modified_gmt":"2007-10-07T15:50:49","slug":"new-york-cab-graft-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/?p=320","title":{"rendered":"New York Cab Graft Ends!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/02\/09\/nyregion\/09TAXI.html\">About time<\/a>. Maybe it was the protest vote:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not working,&#8221; Matthew W. Daus, the chairman of the Taxi and Limousine Commission, said yesterday.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Mr. Daus&#8217;s agency conducted a study in recent weeks and found that 67 percent of the 4,000 or so respondents said they did not pay a lick of attention when Eartha Kitt or Plcido Domingo or Michael Buffer (&#8220;Let&#8217;s get ready to rummmmmmmble!&#8221;) asked them, by recorded proxy, to wear their seat belts in a taxicab.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Moreover, nearly 12 percent of those questioned said they purposefully refused to buckle up because the announcements were annoying.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If we must have a goo-goo mayor, this is what he ought to be doing, instead of persecuting smokers: ridding us of these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/?p=16\">stagnant puddles of graft<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About time. Maybe it was the protest vote: &#8220;It&#8217;s not working,&#8221; Matthew W. Daus, the chairman of the Taxi and Limousine Commission, said yesterday. Mr. Daus&#8217;s agency conducted a study in recent weeks and found that 67 percent of the 4,000 or so respondents said they did not pay a lick of attention when Eartha <a href='https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/?p=320' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-politics","category-6-id","category-22-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}