{"id":129,"date":"2012-03-20T02:09:27","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T02:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/?p=129"},"modified":"2012-03-20T02:09:27","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T02:09:27","slug":"bloomberg-bans-food-donations-to-the-homeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/?p=129","title":{"rendered":"Bloomberg Bans Food Donations to the Homeless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nation.foxnews.com\/michael-bloomberg\/2012\/03\/19\/nanny-bloomberg-bans-food-donations-homeless-shelters-too-salty\">You can&#8217;t make this stuff up<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In conjunction with a mayoral task force and the Health Department, the Department of Homeless Services recently started enforcing new nutritional rules for food served at city shelters. Since DHS can\u2019t assess the nutritional content of donated food, shelters have to turn away good Samaritans.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have to apologize to both of my readers this fine evening.\u00a0 I&#8217;m at a loss for words.\u00a0 What can be said about this?\u00a0 Not a heck of a lot, really.\u00a0 You know what I&#8217;d really really like?\u00a0 I&#8217;d like to find out it&#8217;s a hoax and print a retraction, admit that I&#8217;d been lured in by an internet hoax.\u00a0 But it&#8217;s probably true.<\/p>\n<p>Unions are probably behind this, it&#8217;s gotta be that.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not about nutrition, it&#8217;s about non-union volunteers volunteering to feed people.\u00a0 Can&#8217;t allow that, now can we.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can&#8217;t make this stuff up. In conjunction with a mayoral task force and the Health Department, the Department of Homeless Services recently started enforcing new nutritional rules for food served at city shelters. Since DHS can\u2019t assess the nutritional &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/?p=129\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-left"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions\/130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clw54.com\/blog\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}