{"id":4257,"date":"2009-07-06T22:44:12","date_gmt":"2009-07-07T02:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=4257"},"modified":"2017-03-31T14:08:05","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T18:08:05","slug":"badder-than-bloomberg-the-mayor-of-tirana-albania-drops-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/?p=4257","title":{"rendered":"Badder Than Bloomberg: The Mayor of Tirana, Albania Drops Science."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object class=\"embed\" width=\"425\" height=\"264\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" \ndata=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/QPktvccn1s0?fs=1\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/QPktvccn1s0?fs=1\" \/><em>You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video<\/em><\/object><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4262\" title=\"locationmapalbania\" alt=\"locationmapalbania\" src=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/locationmapalbania-205x300.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/locationmapalbania-205x300.png 205w, http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/locationmapalbania.png 410w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Mayor Mike Bloomberg may be the richest man in New York City, with an estimated worth, pre-the financial downturn, of $20 billion. All his loot, though, wouldn&#8217;t help him in a battle against his Tiranese counterpart, Edi Rama, above, chairman of Albania&#8217;s Socialist Party, and mayor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tirana.gov.al\/?cid=2\"  target=\"_blank\">Tirana<\/a>, capital of the country, right, and site where 895,000 of the nation&#8217;s 3.6 million rest.<\/p>\n<p>In this YouTube clip, above, the former artist joins Albanian crew West Side Family&#8217;s cipher, for their track, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QPktvccn1s0\" >&#8220;Tirona.&#8221;<\/a> (Rama shows up at the 1:46 mark.) I don&#8217;t speak a word of Albanian, and like most Americans, couldn&#8217;t find the country on a map. But whether you speak the language or not, it&#8217;s clear these kids actually have a gift, and more than a little bit of flow.<\/p>\n<p>Hmm: With its sophisticated intellectuals, literate populace, and Mediterranean climate, this little Adriatic jewel may be the exactly the perfect host for our next international hip-hop conference \/ award show \/ road trip.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m kidding.<\/p>\n<p>No, I&#8217;m not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Mayor Mike Bloomberg may be the richest man in New York City, with an estimated worth, pre-the financial downturn, of $20 billion. All his loot, though, wouldn&#8217;t help him in a battle against his Tiranese counterpart, Edi Rama, above, chairman of Albania&#8217;s Socialist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4257"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4257"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7974,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4257\/revisions\/7974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}