{"id":19,"date":"2005-02-09T02:12:28","date_gmt":"2005-02-09T08:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=19"},"modified":"2005-02-09T02:12:28","modified_gmt":"2005-02-09T08:12:28","slug":"new-yorkers-worlds-biggest-wimps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/?p=19","title":{"rendered":"New Yorkers: World&#8217;s Biggest Wimps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/insider.washingtontimes.com\/articles\/normal.php?StoryID=20050207-115844-2886r\">Washington Times Insider<\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;Cuba banned smoking in public places yesterday, an uphill struggle in a country that evokes images of cigar-chomping revolutionaries and where more than half of adults smoke,&#8221; Reuters reports from Havana.<\/p>\n<p>So a totalitarian dictatorship finds it an &#8220;uphill struggle&#8221; to control its citizens&#8217; behavior, but when New York City passed an antismoking law two years ago, people fell right into line. As a New Yorker, we hang our head in shame. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Washington Times Insider &#8220;Cuba banned smoking in public places yesterday, an uphill struggle in a country that evokes images of cigar-chomping revolutionaries and where more than half of adults smoke,&#8221; Reuters reports from Havana. So a totalitarian dictatorship finds it an &#8220;uphill struggle&#8221; to control its citizens&#8217; behavior, but when New York City [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phyrfight.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}