{"id":3215,"date":"2014-01-10T23:08:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-11T06:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=3215"},"modified":"2014-01-10T23:08:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-11T06:08:00","slug":"a-bridge-too-jammed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=3215","title":{"rendered":"A Bridge Too Jammed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Jersey Governor and 2016 GOP presidential candidate, Chris Christie, is embroiled currently in a huge political scandal where his staffers <a title=\"Chris Christie's Bridge Scandal, Explained\" href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2014\/01\/chris-christie-bridge-traffic-jam-emails\" target=\"_blank\">ordered a massive traffic jam on the George Washington bridge entering Fort Lee, New Jersey as a payback for the Fort Lee mayor endorsing the Democratic candidate for Governor last year<\/a>. This kind of puts a damper on his presidential aspirations but then again it is only 2014. We&#8217;ve got two years left to go before the presidential election. Given how forgetful Americans are, by 2016 they&#8217;ll probably say, &#8220;What bridge scandal?&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3217\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3217\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?attachment_id=3217\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3217\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3217\" title=\"chrischristiebridge\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/chrischristiebridge.jpg\" alt=\"ChrisChristie says if you want to cross the George Washington bridge, a vote for Christie is in order\" width=\"500\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/chrischristiebridge.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/chrischristiebridge-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3217\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New Jersey GOP governor and dapper dresser, Chris Christie, lays down the law for people who may want to cross the George Washington bridge.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Jersey Governor and 2016 GOP presidential candidate, Chris Christie, is embroiled currently in a huge political scandal where his staffers ordered a massive traffic jam on the George Washington bridge entering Fort Lee, New Jersey as a payback for the Fort Lee mayor endorsing the Democratic candidate for Governor last year. This kind of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=3215\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Bridge Too Jammed&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,8,85,3],"tags":[686,22,830,9,357,21,828,98,596,19,831,829],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3215"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3215"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3219,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3215\/revisions\/3219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}