{"id":976,"date":"2008-11-10T00:04:34","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T08:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=976"},"modified":"2023-08-28T01:42:42","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T08:42:42","slug":"bladder-control-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=976","title":{"rendered":"Bladder Control Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-top: 1em ; padding-left: 1em ; padding-right: 1em ; padding-bottom: 0 ;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/us_world\/2008\/11\/08\/2008-11-08_jersey_city_councilman_steven_lipski_is_.html\"><q>Jersey City Councilman Steven Lipski is No. 1 threat at Washington club<\/q> by Richard Shapiro of <cite>the New York Daily News<\/cite><\/a> <blockquote style=\"font-size: smaller ;\">A drunken Jersey City councilman was arrested for urinating on a crowd of concertgoers from the balcony of a Washington nightclub, police and club sources said Saturday.<\/blockquote><\/div> <p>And, since the Councilman's party affiliation is <em>mysteriously<\/em> not given in the story, one might <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=%22Steve+Lipski%22+(democrat+|+democratic+|+republican)&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t\">google <blockquote>\"Steve Lipski\" (democrat | democratic | republican)<\/blockquote><\/a><\/p> <p>This time, I was amused to find that many of the first hits are exactly about the failure to report his party affiliation.  I was also amused to find his declaration<\/p> <blockquote><a href=\"http:\/\/www.getnj.com\/onlygameintown\/messages\/5877.shtml\">Yes, I am a Democrat, but I have always put people before politics.<\/a><\/blockquote> <p>as urinating on the crowd suggests that he puts some peculiar things well ahead both of people and of politics.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jersey City Councilman Steven Lipski is No. 1 threat at Washington club by Richard Shapiro of the New York Daily News A drunken Jersey City councilman was arrested for urinating on a crowd of concertgoers from the balcony of a Washington nightclub, police and club sources said Saturday. And, since the Councilman's party affiliation is [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,318,104,4],"tags":[182,401],"class_list":["post-976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-ethics-philosophy","category-news","category-public","tag-journalism","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=976"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12163,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions\/12163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}