{"id":12339,"date":"2011-03-03T10:33:19","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T15:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=12339"},"modified":"2018-12-11T13:04:50","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T18:04:50","slug":"mr-mayor-mr-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/03\/mr-mayor-mr-mayor\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Mayor? Mr. Mayor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thearmoryshow.com\/cgi-local\/content.cgi\">The Armory Show<\/a> kicked off today. Yesterday, The Daily\u2019s special culture correspondent Jon Cotner was at the fair\u2019s press conference with Mayor Bloomberg. Says Jon, \u201cReporters kept attacking Bloomberg for his education cuts. 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