{"id":3320,"date":"2013-06-03T13:58:28","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T17:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=3320"},"modified":"2013-06-03T13:58:28","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T17:58:28","slug":"wsj-editorial-board-member-nyc-bike-share-program-has-begrimed-best-neighborhoods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2013\/06\/wsj-editorial-board-member-nyc-bike-share-program-has-begrimed-best-neighborhoods\/","title":{"rendered":"WSJ Editorial Board Member: NYC Bike-Share Program Has &#8216;Begrimed&#8217; Best Neighborhoods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Flying_Pigeon.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-3321\" alt=\"Flying_Pigeon\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Flying_Pigeon.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Flying_Pigeon.jpg 300w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Flying_Pigeon-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dorothy Rabinowitz, an editorial board member for the Wall Street Journal, disparaged New York City&#8217;s recently launched bike-share program.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Do not ask me to enter the mind of the totalitarians running this government of the city,&#8221; Rabinowitz said when asked what she thought was the motivation behind the program.<\/p>\n<p>The program is privately funded, with Citi Bank serving as the chief sponsor. Rabinowitz argued that her sentiments represent &#8220;the majority of citizens,&#8221; saying that the blue bicycles that have dotted the city since the program launched last week have &#8220;begrimed&#8221; some of New York&#8217;s most scenic neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE:<\/strong> \u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com\/entry\/wsj-editorial-board-member-blasts-totalitarians-behind-nyc\" target=\"_Blank\">WSJ Editorial Board Member: NYC Bike-Share Program Has &#8216;Begrimed&#8217; Best Neighborhoods | TPM LiveWire<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Dorothy Rabinowitz, an editorial board member for the Wall Street Journal, disparaged New York City&#8217;s recently launched bike-share program. &#8220;Do not ask me to enter the mind of the totalitarians running this government of the city,&#8221; Rabinowitz said when asked what she thought was the motivation behind the program. The program is privately funded,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[257,22],"tags":[1278,1698,1699,346,1104],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3320"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3320"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3323,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3320\/revisions\/3323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}