{"id":2526,"date":"2024-01-01T11:45:51","date_gmt":"2024-01-01T16:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/?p=2526"},"modified":"2024-01-01T11:55:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-01T16:55:00","slug":"mayor-kelly-seen-filling-potholes-before-midnight-nye-to-boost-2023-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/2024\/01\/01\/mayor-kelly-seen-filling-potholes-before-midnight-nye-to-boost-2023-number\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Kelly seen filling potholes before midnight NYE to boost 2023 number"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>According to eyewitnesses, Mayor Tim Kelly was seen at various locations just before midnight on New Year&#8217;s Eve, frantically filling potholes in what appears to be an attempt to boost the number of potholes filled in 2023 in Chattanooga.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kelly reportedly was wearing a long, black cape with a piece of felt cut out to resemble a shovel, sewn to it, and dragging a large sack of steaming asphalt, scampering about like a nocturnal creature in the final, shadowy hour of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Witnesses said they could hear him mumbling to himself phrases such as, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chattanoogan.com\/2023\/12\/21\/480035\/Chattanooga-Public-Works-Paved-66-Lane.aspx\">Got to reach 20,000<\/a>,&#8221; &#8220;You can do it, Timmy Boy,&#8221; and &#8220;I am the Prince of Potholes.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to eyewitnesses, Mayor Tim Kelly was seen at various locations just before midnight on New Year&#8217;s Eve, frantically filling potholes in what appears to be an attempt to boost the number of potholes filled in 2023 in Chattanooga. Kelly reportedly was wearing a long, black cape with a piece of felt cut out to resemble a shovel, sewn to it, and dragging a large sack of steaming asphalt, scampering about like a nocturnal creature in the final, shadowy hour of the year. Witnesses said they could hear him mumbling to himself phrases such as, &#8220;Got to reach 20,000,&#8221; &#8220;You<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2526"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chattanoogabystander.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}