{"id":223,"date":"2001-05-17T20:11:59","date_gmt":"2001-05-18T00:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=223"},"modified":"2009-10-23T20:16:34","modified_gmt":"2009-10-24T00:16:34","slug":"show-us-where-it-hurts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=223","title":{"rendered":"Show Us Where It Hurts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>When you&#8217;re a K Street big shot, you like your local politicians to stay bought <\/strong>and keep their campaign promises, and that&#8217;s why around the turn of the century, Anthony Williams would&#8217;ve been your man. Among his top priorities as Mayor was closing down DC General Hospital, the city&#8217;s only public hospital and, in spite of constant alarmist rumors in the Washington <em>Times,<\/em> not a hell hole.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-224\" title=\"whereithurts550w\" src=\"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/whereithurts550w.jpg\" alt=\"whereithurts550w\" width=\"550\" height=\"820\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/whereithurts550w.jpg 550w, http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/whereithurts550w-100x150.jpg 100w, http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/whereithurts550w-335x500.jpg 335w, http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/whereithurts550w-402x600.jpg 402w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Among the other jewels of the Williams Legacy was his keeping of campaign promises to close homeless family shelters, to close and sell a fistful of public schools for redevelopment as condominiums or health clubs, and to run poor and working-class people out of DC and replace them with people who can afford to shop downtown and who are most likely to vote for Anthony Williams (or someone like him&#8230; like, say, Adrian Fenty).<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Show Us Where it Hurts\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/williams\/whereithurts.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Medium-res jpg image, <\/strong><\/a>710k<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you&#8217;re a K Street big shot, you like your local politicians to stay bought and keep their campaign promises, and that&#8217;s why around the turn of the century, Anthony Williams would&#8217;ve been your man. Among his top priorities as Mayor was closing down DC General Hospital, the city&#8217;s only public hospital and, in spite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,20],"tags":[73,66,67],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dc-local","category-health-care","tag-anthony-williams","tag-dc-general-hospital","tag-washington-dc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions\/226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}